HARD TO EXPLAIN TALES
Time
Slip
We sometimes read that time is
an artificial device that only applies during our earthly life, but we accept it
unquestioningly as long as time proceeds smoothly. But one day, in 1980, it
didn't...
I was living in an old
cottage in Wendover, England as a tenant of a woman whose daughter had two cats.
One was a benign old tabby cat, the other pure black and less good natured, even
mischievous. This cat liked to play games with me, one being to go under my bed
and refuse to come out. On this evening, I began to open the bedroom door, and
this cat shot in and scampered under the bed. Then in seconds, the exact same
thing happened again in the same direction.
I got the impression the
first occasion was completely soundless, while there was the noise of paws on
the carpet the second and "real" time. I was not alarmed, but have never
forgotten this. It seems that time is like a tape that runs from birth to death,
but just now and then, it slips off track. How else could people claim to enter
buildings that no longer exist out of their time frame.
Sometimes I feel I am
re-experiencing the same situation in a deja vu way, like a replayed piece of
music, but time slips are more dramatic.
They must be telling us
something...I'm
just not sure what!
-Martin.