Selected Aphorisms #47

The forty-seventh installment in our relativistic new series.

To everyone who saw it happen the other night, it appeared as though Rudy Fernandez scored 5 points in a mere 1.7 seconds. It appeared that way, I wrote. What you’re not accounting for is how time moves for Rudy himself. For Rudy, that whole breathtaking episode actually seemed closer to like 7 minutes. People don’t realize that, though. They’re not in that type of frame of mind.