A most delightful scene

But rather frightful, it would seem,

Another day gone past,

They sure don't last,

Mocking me, as if a dream,

For surely time is certain

And before the final curtain,

All acts must pass in time,

One, two, three! The ordered line

Of time, it seems to me,

Is not quite so orderly,

Where and wherefore the hours run,

It must surely be sublime.

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Where does the time go? If we take the above as a point of reference, it goes on holiday. Never quite got that: the fact that real time, that is the processes of the world proceeding at the rate at which they always do, and psychological time are never quite, well, in time.

I'm sure atoms have something to do with it. Fucking atoms. The atoms made me do it, sir, those nasty atom twins.

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So here's the deal. You understand English. Yes, no arguing, keep your trap shut, men are talking. You understand English, your mental grammars and your personal lexicon are more than sufficient for you to communicate in English. You also know enough to have the ability to create an infinite number of sentences, meanings, phrases, new words even. Infinite, without limit. And yet, are there infinite words in English? No. You only know on average 20'000-ish. Measurably finite. As is your knowledge of grammar, finite. There is not an infinite number of rules under which to classify and construct English sentences; you have a set number of elements with which to create meaning. You might not even know that you know these rules of grammar and formation: for example, you can say unhappy, but not unsad. You might not be able to explain why you can't say 'unsad' beyond a simple "you just can't," you can understand what 'unsad' means even though it's not part of English. So there, finite elements, unconscious knowledge of grammar, and yet you have the power to create infinite meanings and sentences. You have the power to create a sentence that has never been created before. EVER.

Ornithology is far inferior to the study of tautology in my opinion.

There, I'll bet no one has ever constructed that sentence before. In thousands and thousands of years of organised and studied language, never ever ever.

ISN'T THAT AMAZING?!