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| Minutes and seconds are strictly city preoccupations. In the city people hurry, hurry so as not to waste a single minute, and fail to realize that they are throwing a lifetime away. |
Giovannino Guareschi (1 May 1908 – 22 July 1968)
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| Minutes and seconds are strictly city preoccupations. In the city people hurry, hurry so as not to waste a single minute, and fail to realize that they are throwing a lifetime away. |
Giovannino Guareschi (1 May 1908 – 22 July 1968)
He has a point but I well remember that while living in the country people talked about the distance between two points not as mileage but as in the time take.
ReplyDeleteSo do I. I often heard 'It's two (five, ten) minutes from here'. I do think, though, that does not contradict Guareschi.
DeleteHaving just returned from a bucolic corner on the Isle of Skye, I can take to heart that comparison.
ReplyDeleteGood to "see" you Mark. I started to get a bit worried. Hope you spent a lovely time on Skye.
DeleteRight now I am thinking about a German and a Japanese at a congress in Vienna. On the way to the metro, the German looks at his watch and says "If we hurry, we can catch the next train and save ten minutes".
A short time later they are sitting in the underground, wiping the sweat from their foreheads, and the Japanese asks: "And what are we going to do with the ten minutes?"
nice one😂
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