The time disease

“Twenty-twenty, and the time disease is epidemic. In my credit group, anyway. And yours too, friend, unless I miss my guess. Nobody thinks about anything else anymore. Nobody even pretends to think about anything else anymore. Oh yeah, except the sky, of course. The poor sky. . . . It's a thing. It's a situation. We all think about time, catching time, coming down with time. I'm still okay, I think, for the time being.”  Amis, Martin. “Einstein's Monsters.” Random House,