Volume 2 · The Discipline of Hours · Essay 206
Rational Heating Paradox
Here is a thing that should not be true, and is: Rational Heating Paradox. Sit with it for a moment. It will repay you.
The way out is not to solve it but to carry it. Some loads are meant to be carried, not put down. This paradox is one of them, and the carrying itself builds the muscle.
Think of the student the night before the board exam, and the same student the morning after results. One believes time is an enemy; the other discovers it was only a mirror.
Time is the one currency the Reserve Bank does not print more of. That is all. A small tool, honestly kept, beats a large one admired.