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Friday categorization #36

0331 Minutes
 -0331.1 Those before the next one
    –0331.11 Those that additionally come after the previous one
    –0331.12 Minutes partly out of sequence or of unusual shapes
       —0331.121 Those coming back around again to the next one once more
    –0331.13 Those threaded through time, coming back as themselves again and again
 -0331.2 Those underlined in some way by historians
    –0331.21 Minutes of the death of kings
       —0331.211 Those in shadowed sickrooms
       —0331.212 Those on the battlefield
          —-0331.2121 Those unattended by a horse
    –0331.22 Those minutes surrounding the birth of twins or the fulfillment of prophecies
    –0331.23 Those containing the first tiny sign of some disaster
    –0331.24 Those during which the ink dries on the signatures of peace treaties
 -0331.3 Those pertaining to music or literature
    –0331.31 Of songs
       –0331.311 Those minutes that are the best minutes of their respective songs
       –0331.312 Those minutes that are only minutes of said songs
    –0331.32 Of art or sundry things
       –0331.321 Those minutes when you see something that you cannot later unsee
    –0331.32 Of literature or film
       –0331.321 Those minutes when sense swims up out of the dense morass and breathes and sinks back down once more
       –0331.322 Those in which everything changes
       –0331.323 Ends
 -0331.4 Minutes of unusual length
    –0331.41 Those emboldened by the addition of a leap second or two
       —0331.411 Minutes stuffed full of leap seconds as a gift for lovers of time to open on New Years’ morning
    –0331.42 Minutes that have been time-dilated into flabby lumps of spaceship time
    –0331.43 Those spent falling off a cliff, receiving terrible news, in unusual ecstasy or being a bit bored
    –0331.44 Those minutes inhabited by malfunctioning time machines
 -0331.5 Minutes that have been forgotten
    –0331.51 Those in which nothing happened
    –0331.52 Those in which things happened that no-one saw
    –0331.53 Those attended by too few elephants
    –0331.54 Those in which things happened and people saw them and which subsequently those people successfully joined the foreign legion to forget
    –0331.55 Quotidian minutes in the lives of the long dead
    –0331.56 This minute, many years from now

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