Tanpınar who had been named by Mehmet Kaplan as “a cultural nationalist” counts history, arts and traditions as creative elements of continiuity of community. This perspective, in Tanpınar’s poetries, stories and novels, provides possibility of time sense that is similiar to continiuity concept of Bergson. Against of western modernization thanks to Rebirth and Reform Movements Ottoman had carried out reforms for self-renovation. After reforms, Ottoman administators and intellectuals had become away to traditions and that caused a düalist mentality which is sequeezed between new and old. This situation can be explained as “The Threshold”. Unlike his other works, in his “Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü” novel, Tanpınar examines this situation ironically. In this work, generally, by starting over “The Threshold” concept we