Just a Second

[jigsawpig]

There will, apparently, be an extra second interposed into the normal countdown to the New Year tonight, supposedly to account for the slowdown in the earth's rotational period due to the languorous embrace of the moon, although this does appear to me to be an suspiciously romantic explanation for what must, when all is said and done, be a simple

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[anonymous]

But is that second not just the final point in a great long thought process, or emerging idea, or occasionally a lifetime of developing, building, piecing together?