Clever books are hard to write, and even harder to read. When you write “about something without knowing what,” you can’t then force people: oh, read me, read me! Nowadays no one is allowed to force living people to read a complex set of letters in unfamiliar words. To make the process of absorption more painless for the heroes of “abstruse” reading, this book is filled with a chimerical-phantom anesthesia of humor and irony. If time for you is not a beautiful and expensive watch on your wrist, then perhaps it makes sense to spend time to at least think about what time is and estimate the value of your personal hour of life.