
Take Your Fair Hour
You do not have to be called Einstein to know that time is very much relative. Imaging sitting in an evening class, after a convulsive day at work, believing that 60 minutes must have passed; discreetly you look at your watch, only to discover that all of 12 minutes have elapsed. Ages before you get home for a drink… Or maybe you have fallen into a passion and your lover is calling round at 7 o’clock that evening, unaware of the revelation that awaits; the day seems like an aeon to you. Or maybe, you are having an encounter with an old friend and you wish, without success, that the outing would never end. Maybe you are pounding through a fantastically funny story and, just before the punchline, the waiter…