Status Updates From Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

"The life of that man is truly poetical, he solves the great riddle: to live in eternity yet so to hear the parlour clock strike that its striking does not shorten but prolongs his eternity – a contradiction no less profound, but far more glorious, than the the story of the unfortuanate of whom it recounts that he woke up in hell and shouted 'What time is it?', to which the devil answered 'An eternity'.'