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time moving at the speed of a dripping faucet, one second per hour.
means the dull ache of doing something repetitive and boring for so long it stops feeling like time at all.
from from latin taedium, meaning weariness or disgust, related to taedet, it disgusts — the romans basically had a word for being sick of something, and we shrunk it down to mean waiting rooms and staff meetings.
root wordshares dna with tedious and taedium vitae, weariness of life
paradoxboring moments feel endless yet vanish from memory instantly
clock illusionwatched pots and watched clocks both defy physics emotionally