| Show nes on BP adaha N they were waiting to hear the chimes ring out for midnight on new years eve dan said have you 7 ever thought much about time dora you ask strange questions young man ban she laughed 1 I dont know what you mean dan grinned back at her when you get going on it its rather awful and when I 1 say awful I 1 mean just that thal until the idea of the old and the new year formulated in mens minds it was just time everywhere I 1 infinite unbounded uncounted going on and on then I 1 suppose somebody noticed in certain parts of the world that birds came back la in one season and went back another that now it was r cold cold tor for it a while and now it was hot that the tides came and went with regularity and so they sort of scratched their heads and said bald look here there are four seasons spring summer autumn winter and there are suns and moons to measure them by day bud aud night I 1 dont think time itself really cares whether it Is divided into twenty tour four hours a day seven days a week and twelve months a year bear or not just a convenience for human beings S the animals dont care the birds know when to leme leae and when to return without any calendars whatever funny it you get lost in the idea not technically but just brooding over it IL what has happened in mens minds divides time for us time itself Is unchanged its a awful W f U I 1 it scares one a little the clock began booming off twelve strokes midnight and happy new yearl smiled dora youre probably right but pm ici glad somebody thought it up the beginning of a new year and all the fun of it it if it were all just time where here would the parties be 4 goose he be laughed come on lets go and crash one this minute minu tel 1 C 1933 western union |
