“Aussentemperatur: 21 degrees” … who gives a shit? … “Höhe: 3700 m” … still?!…”Vitesse au sul: 100 km”… deep breaths, …”Durèe de vol: 11 mins”…has it only been 2 minutes?!…”Localzeit: 00:38″…hurry! fly faster, Mr. Pilot…”Time to destination: 10 mins”. The bright spark who introduced those information screens in front of each cabin has a lot [...]
The trouble with each “new” year is the enforced starting over. Twelve months into its maturation, and just as a certain fondness forms out of familiarity (but just before familiarity breeds contempt), the “reset” button is pressed. Therein lies the crux: objective time is demarcated rationally while subjective time – the time of Augustine – [...]
Apparently Catholics simply don’t have enough fun, and in a fundamental sense, this can only be true. We are in need of saving of course, and stand a better chance of stepping out of a lifetime’s worth of lifelessness if we could but sample the other side – if not in its entirety, then little [...]
I’ve given up smoking so many times it’s so easy now. The latest justification for continuing this slow suicide was thus: Not smoking does not make me a better person. Anyway, this is my last attempt to buy myself a few more days/weeks/months/years. While on the subject of clocks and time, the dreaded tick-tock tick-tock [...]
