The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs: that I cannot understand. I know that I am not mad,
and I am equally sure that you are not; but how in the
world are we to account for the strange hallucinations
that each of us seems to harbor relative to the passage
of time since last we saw each other. You are positive
that months have gone by, while to me it seems equally
certain that not more than an hour ago I sat beside you
in the amphitheater. Can it be that both of us are
right and at the same time both are wrong? First tell me
what time is, and then maybe I can solve our problem.
Do you catch my meaning?"
 At the Earth's Core |