you know the month, the year, the day of the week. there is a clock on your wall, in the dashboard of your car.
you have a schedule, a calendar, a time for dinner. yet all around timekeeping is ignored. Birds are not late, dogs don't look at clocks, cats don't fret over passing birthdays. Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures.
A fear of time running out...