A Hasty Report From A Tearing Hurry

Raymond Tallis has a measured response to numbered seconds.

"So as we seem to get a grip on time via numbers, time gets an ever-tighter grip on us. We are like Gulliver in Lilliput, pinned to the ground by a multitude of chronological threads, notwithstanding that our hastes become more manic and our passage from one thing to the next is an increasingly fluid slide."