Here's one for
@version on the subject of temporal fluctuations...
"We live in the fifth sun, known as
Nahlii Ollin, the sun of motion. In this sun, things will become faster and faster.
And this sun will end, in its turn, devoured by celestial monsters. Very soon..."
"Do you feel as though time's speeding up, darling?
I mean, actually getting faster."
"Funny, everybody I speak to these days says the same thing.
Maybe it's like a whirlpool, and the closer we get to the apocalypse or the eschaton or whatever you want to call it, the more things happen in a shorter time."
Sort of similar to how older people often perceive and experience time in a different way? Cos they're closer to death?
Time as a whirlpool, I've gotta say, it sounds more interesting than Alan Moore's formulation of time as a fat sausage, but it feels wrong to me.