Years

The Boat Of A Million Years, XIX.

Hanno:

"'We could invent plenty of mere amusements. We doubtless will. If necessary, we can just wait. A year goes by fast after you've had hundreds or thousands of them.'" (14, p. 503)

And again:

"...as Hanno had once implied, it was as well that to immortals, a year could feel like quite a short span." (16, p. 507)

I remembered something as having happened a year ago, the previous summer, whereas a young child remembered it as something that had happened "a very long time ago." To a child of two, the previous year is half of his life to date whereas, to an adult of fifty, it is a fiftieth. To Hanno, who was an adult in 310 B.C., a year will seem like a month or even like a week does to us. I envy that perspective.

Poul Anderson's Time Patrolmen will have an even stranger perception of time. They might come to regard it as almost nonexistent. Some of their memories are of "deleted" events.

In The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader (I think), Aslan tells a human child that he will see her soon but, when asked what he means by "soon," replies, "I call all times soon." 

(Aslan, like Krishna, is a good mythological/fictional divine incarnation. We can learn from these guys without expecting to meet them on the street.)