Almost every day/week/month/year now seems to pass more quickly than the last – a phenomenon
certainly associated with age, except that quite young people are now
complaining about it. I guess this may have something to do with the fact that
leisure seems to have vanished almost completely from life – we are all at it
from dawn to dusk with never a pause for thought. On the other hand, I read
recently that the reason why one can very rarely successfully swot a fly is
because they live life in slow motion; they see the newspaper or fly-swotter or
hand approaching so slowly that it’s easy to be up and away before the fatal
impact. The report seemed to suggest that scientists somewhere or other are
hoping to discover the fly’s secret, and see if it can be applied to humans. Now
there’s a charity to which I would happily donate a dollar.
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