A repressive "criminology" is contemned, for it employs "bribery. The socially critical purpose of the story is clear in its satirization of hierarchical hypocrisy in which even the chief Timekeeper himself is not on time. 1 "Repent, Harlequin!" locates in the future our present world having gone mad with militarized labor forces, preoccupation with time, emphasis on mass consumption, and totalitarian rule. Harlan Ellison's "'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman," first published in 1965, is a purposefully extrapolative story about social regimentation. White Ellison's Harlequin: Irrational Moral Action in Static Time
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