Time's Masquerade concerns itself with an alternative type of time - an interior form of time. This form of time was greatly honored in the ancient world - globally. If you look at your watch or clock on the wall, the second, minute and hour hands don't really need to be there. They were put there to draw your attention away from the center to the peripheral circle of the clock face.
This is as it should be, however the assumption is that nothing else can possibly go there. Today we have digital clocks, thereby collapsing the need for any "center". There is an architecture that fills this void and the implications for our future are stunning.