TIME ENOUGH The tally of years added up so rapidly it appeared I had been short-changed, tricked by sleight of hand, fallen victim to false bookkeeping. Yet when I checked my records, each and every year had been accounted for, down to the last day, and could be audited against old diary entries (client briefings, dental check-ups, parent-teacher meetings, wedding anniversaries), verified with credit card statements (multi-trip insurance, antibiotics, concert bookings, mobile top-ups). And, although nagging doubts remained—an inkling that I had been ripped off in some way, given short shrift, made to live at an accelerated pace, rushed through my routines with unseemly haste— nothing could be proved, no hard and fast statistics adduced. I had, it seems, unknown to me, been living my life to the full. ~ DENNIS ODRISCOLL in *Dear Life* © Copper Canyon Press [PHOTO: The Astronomical Clock in Old Town, the Staré Město district of Prague, Czech Republic, first installed in 1410 (making it the third-oldest astronomical clock in the world and the oldest one still working) and made by clockmaker Mikuláš of Kadaň and Jan Šindel, the latter a professor of mathematics and astronomy at Charles University. The clock mechanism is composed of three main components: the astronomical dial (representing the position of the Sun and Moon in the sky and displaying various astronomical details), The Walk of the Apostles (an hourly clockwork of figures of the Apostles and other moving sculptures—notably a figure of Death (represented by a skeleton) striking the time; and a calendar dial with medallions representing the months.]
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