RickGriffin

“Ten thousand” is a punchy, raw number. Ten thousand of a thing is a staggeringly large amount. The mind tricks itself into believing it is countable. If I wanted to, I could recall the years I walked this hall, same as they are, day in and day out. But I do not want to, and so I simply say—to myself because there is no one else—that I have walked this hall for ten thousand years. My mind could not handle “a million years” without admitting that it is equivalent to eternity. Therefore it could not possibly be a million. And there was no one to say otherwise. There were the two clocks, one over the table