But out of time and space came point-instants, and out of point-instants came a universe.

Valentine: Well, you’ll still be too forward. Speed: And yet I was last chidden for being too slow.

1982 Bris Milah: A Book about the Jewish Ritual of Circumcision

Were there a thousand – or was it five thousand slaves? – cranking the long poles of these shadufs to raise our water?