…status of signs. And it's obviously in some different sense than that that Goethe wrote his famous lines at the end of Faust: Alles vergehentliche ist nur ein leichnis. Forgive my pronunciation of German: all that is mortal or all that is perishable is…

…and therefore we get the feeling from the watch that time flies and we become anxious. So short. And so the exclamation of Faust at the end of Goethe's Drama, saying to the moment: oh still delay thou art so fair. The horror of the approaching end,…

…status of signs. And it's obviously in some different sense than that that Goethe wrote his famous lines at the end of Faust: Alles vergängliche ist nur ein gleichnis. Forgive my pronunciation of German: all that is mortal or all that is perishable is but…