Once upon a time, there were two times. One
was called One time and
the other was called Another time.
One and Another time formed the Sometimes family,
which lived and ate from time to time. The great dominant empires were Always and Never which, as
is evident, loathed the Sometimes family. Neither Always nor Never tolerated
the existence of the
Sometimeses. Always could not
allow One time to
live in its kingdom because then Always stopped
being so because if there now is one time then there is no longer always. Never also
could not allow Another time to
appear another time in its kingdom because Never cannot
live with one time even less if that time is Another time. But One
time and Another
time went
on bothering Always and Never time and
time again. And that’s how it was until Always always
left them in peace and Never never again bothered them. And One time
and Another time went on playing time and time again.
And like that they pass the time happily from
time to time, you now see. And they always were One and Another time and
never stopped being Sometimeses. The
end.
Moral 1: Sometimes it is very difficult to
distinguish between one time and another time.
Moral 2: One must never say always (all
right, sometimes one must).
Moral 3: The “alwayses” and the “nevers” are
imposed by those from above, but below appear “the bothersome” time and time
again which, sometimes, is another way of saying “the different,” or from time
to time, “the rebellious.”
Moral 4: I will never again write a story
like this, and I always do what I say (all right, sometimes I don’t).
Originally published on September 12th, 1998.
English translation
copyright © 2014 by Henry Gales. All rights reserved.
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