Time, the Winkless God

Time, the Winkless God: Time is a little difficult to define. Philosophers and theologians have tried for at least twenty-five centuries. Albert Einstein remarked, in the midst of slightly more esoteric statements regarding physics, that time was what his wristwatch measured. St. Augustine said that he knew what time was as long as no one asked him to explain it. And sounding a note of frustration in her book What, Then, Is Time (the title too is from St. Augustine), Eva Brann laments, %u201CWhy don%u2019t I know what that is which I tell, save, spend, mark, waste, and even kill every day of my life with perfect aplomb?%u201D