The following insights are from my new friend, Sherri Harris. I'll give them to you one day at a time.
Titus Maccius Plautus (254? – 184 B.C.) said: “The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish hours. Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my days so wretchedly into small portions!”
Certainly a man before his time, so to speak. Poor Plautus! I wonder what Plautus would have to say about the world in which we exist! In today’s world the most fleeting events that scientists can measure are in the range of attoseconds. An attosecond is a billionth of a billionth of a second, which from my frame of reference here in the 21st century makes Plautus’ “wretchedly small portions” on his sundial look heavenly. What would Plautus say about an attosecond?!
Umm, perhaps something like edepol or perhaps even cacat.
Posted by: Trogdor | October 13, 2005 at 06:49 PM