"Our situation is complicated by differing views of time, and I was
wondering aloud if history and the present reality disclose the truth
about time in the same way that time reveals the truth of the present.
If our way were more illuminated, the journey would be easier."

"Perhaps that is why men look to the well lit paths of history, or to
the dim conjectures of the future rather than the dark, yet detailed
ways of present."

"Perhaps," he said, "But the present is so fleeting that it holds little
intrigue"

"Even so, it is the stage, not still waiting behind the curtain, nor
already performed."

"Yet the past controls by influences and prejudices, justified or not,
and it will doubtless be the view of the council that the past must be
redone, that the problems be addressed at the source," Bernibus replied.


"I am still in the dark about all your inferences," I said.

"My apologies, I forget myself. But let us not dwell on subjects which
may become quite exhausted in the near future, for better or worse," he
told me.

"Fair enough," I returned, acceding to the subject change, and jumping
on the opportunity to steer it in a different direction, "I know little
of you, Bernibus, so tell me all."