Crusaders in Hell

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Sinday, Moanday, Duesday, Weptsday, Tearsday, Frightday, Sadderday ... the weeks rolled on, tune without end, and the Devil rolled with the punches.

Usually.

Time in Hell is an endless series of infinitely divided instants, as Zeno of Elea would have put it. Did put it, as a possible solution to the paradox of Achilles and the .tortoise. Infinitely divisible or singularly indivisible; either any moment, no matter how small, could be divided into an infinite number of smaller moments, and so on ad infinitum, or not: these were the.

Original Choices in the quandary of time.

Now that Zeno had all the time in Hell to work out the solution to his problem, it seemed not to matter. At least, not until the Devil came to call.

"Hello, Zeno," said the Devil who looked, that Sadderday, rather like an Oxford don. Zeno hadn't been familiar with Oxford dons or atomic clocks before he came to Hell. Now, he worked at the Infernal Observatory, in the department of Apparent Time. Here he was in charge of the Diabolical Dialing Department, which dispensed, by phone, the exact Satanic Mean Time to all callers.

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