November 07, 2006
Time — what is time?
“Night-time sharpens, heightens each sensation…”
Night-time. Driving home. Thoughts fluttering this way and that. Memories crowding each other, pushing past one another, all mixed up in a surreal collage of emotions. Every now and then, the memory of one single experience or another manages to float up, past all the others, and fill the mind completely for a moment or five. “So when did this happen — yesterday morning? The day before, just before lunch?”… A confuzzled moment of mixing and matching other events and experiences. “This morning?! Impossible!”… So much seems to have happened since then — is it possible that all of this did fit into a single day?…
Aye, it is. A long day. For very large values of “long”.
I think you've all had days like this.
But how many times in your life have there been five such days in a row?…
It seems that today was the first “normal” day after those five — and I already wish it weren't.
Posted by roam at November 7, 2006 10:49 PM
Time what is time
I wish I knew how to tell you why
It hurts to know
Aren't we machines
Time what is time
Unlock the door
And see the truth
Then time is time again
Cheers for those who live outside the time
Posted by: Asen at November 7, 2006 11:35 PM"Then time is time again", indeed...
Actually, you ought to be pretty well aware that it's to you that I owe the title of this post - and the "<erwin> just don't ask Poul-Henning" memory - and some more ideas and memories... So, yup, cheers - and one of those days I *will* give you a couple of Piers Anthony's "Incarnations" books - a couple of additional lessons in living out of time.
