“I cannot imagine how any people could become so confused and dominated by regularity that they would abandon living time and invent a dead calendar of regularized intervals. Since the -idea- of time is involved in -every other idea and all of identity-, this choice essentially eviscerates any possible intelligence before it can even get started, by establishing an abstracted context in the place of one of the most fundamentally life-crucial of intimacies: the living calendar, which is, itself, an exchange between nature and all living beings. To pretend this could be traded for numbers in books and our minds would survive is… well, it’s unthinkable.”

— an anonymous informant