Because
hype45 asked for it, and I was more than happy to oblige. :) My rambling in italics.
Barring Accidents
(
History, in its making, runs quietly on as it has always done - the hands of the clock move, things change, they stay the same - but, Dakin has discovered, it is possible to put your foot out and trip History up a little, not enough to make him fall, or to turn round and go the other way, but enough to make him stumble and then carry on. )