18 December
Computer Science Geek
What we call the beginning is often the end
And to make an end is to make a beginning
The end is where we start from.
Our boy TS Eliot, he was pretty clever. Beginnings, endings — they’re all nonsense. It’s convenient for us to remove the old calendar and put up a new one, but Time doesn’t actually work that way. Time doesn’t mark the intervals of its passing; there is no tick, no tock to distinguish between this second and the next. It’s always now.
Many people, tonight, will celebrate that illusory moment between the tick of the old year and the tock of the new. And good for them; there is, or should be, always some reason for celebration. There’s something wonderful, really, about celebrating an illusion.
The year, the month, the day and the hour and the minute — they all pass like a vague silhouette in front of the brightly-lit window of a shop that’s already closed.
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