Lullabies for the dormant mind

"..Jim realized that for starlight to be seen from Earth, it had to have travelled trillions of years, which meant that by looking at starlight now, he was looking into time. Time wasn't a black hole- it was light. Gigantic, hummungous, expanding, mind-blowing light. Light that couldn't be contained by seconds or minutes or hours. Time couldn't be contained by the watch on his wrist. Now that he was thinking about time in a big way, it occured to Jim that the watch wasn't much more than a stone-age tool."

-Road to Bliss