Time is a resource. Everyone knows it has to be managed. On Discworld that is the job of the Monks of History, who store it and pump it from the place where it's wasted (like underwater - how much time does a codfish need?) to places like cities where there's never enough time. But the construction of the world's first truly accurate clock starts a race against, well, time... |
Leseprobe: The first question they ask is: 'Why was he eternally surprised?'
And they are told: 'Wen considered the nature of time and understood that the universe is,
instant by instant, recreated anew. Therefore, he understood, there is in truth no past,
only a memory of the past. Blink your eyes, and the world you see next did not exist
when you closed them. Therefore, he said, the only appropriate state of the mind is surprise.
The only appropriate state of the heart is joy. The sky you see now, you have never seen
before. The perfect moment is now. Be glad of it. |
Belletristik 
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