Time Slips
Apr. 21st, 2020 01:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tealinThe last week or so, I've had the weird feeling that sections of the day are missing – that tasks somehow take four hours when they should have taken two, or that something as simple as dropping something into a postbox somehow needs 30 minutes to elapse from leaving my front door to returning.
This morning I was listening to one of my favourite songs, whose verse structure essentially runs AABB, and suddenly there was a verse that dropped the first B. It was such a tidy deletion, and not at all accompanied by that 'oh I zoned out for a second' feeling which I am very accustomed to – I noticed it because it jumped.
There are only two possible explanations:
A: I am losing my mind (haha, yes, 'how would you tell', very funny)
B: I have inadvertently caught the History Monks reapportioning time
If B, it is very thoughtful of them to shorten our duration under lockdown. I wonder if I can blackmail them into giving me a stash under the table like, to finish my book this year, which so far is not likely to happen.
And that sentence tips the needle ever so closer to A ...
This morning I was listening to one of my favourite songs, whose verse structure essentially runs AABB, and suddenly there was a verse that dropped the first B. It was such a tidy deletion, and not at all accompanied by that 'oh I zoned out for a second' feeling which I am very accustomed to – I noticed it because it jumped.
There are only two possible explanations:
A: I am losing my mind (haha, yes, 'how would you tell', very funny)
B: I have inadvertently caught the History Monks reapportioning time
If B, it is very thoughtful of them to shorten our duration under lockdown. I wonder if I can blackmail them into giving me a stash under the table like, to finish my book this year, which so far is not likely to happen.
And that sentence tips the needle ever so closer to A ...
