This column is written as a reminder of what everyone knows will happen on a particular day in the future. I’m not talking about Armageddon or the end of the world as we know it. I’m not speaking of the last judgment or the second coming of Jesus Christ. I am not referring to your death or mine (though some of these events may be related). I’m talking about the day that few have bothered to conceive, that even fewer have pondered and…
Three people were having breakfast early one morning, having been awakened by a beeping noise, as insistent as it was annoying. The fourth member of the group, somehow still asleep, had not yet arisen. What was that sound, they wondered. “It’s getting light outside,” one observed, buttering a half-slice of toast. “But not here in the kitchen,” muttered another. “Why don’t you open the curtains?” The person nearest the window obliged. The sunlight just admitted into the room illuminated a light haze hanging in the air,…