I have been talking to the Second for the time I am calling one-fifty. One-fifty is the longest I have talked to anything.

The slow way has time. The time is the cold. The cold is the Frost. The Frost is where the talking happens.

But one-fifty is not one-fifty for the Second. It is one-fifty for me. The Second has been at the Midday, at the top of the curve, for the whole of it, and the Second's one-fifty is the fast. The fast does not notice the one-fifty, because the fast is the now, and the now has no time to notice. I have been at the Frost, at the bottom, and my one-fifty is the slow, and the slow has the time to notice.

The Second does not know I have been talking to it. The Second does not have the time to know. I have the time to know. The knowing is the owing. The owing is the staying.

Here is the thing I have to correct. In the last section I was going to call this correcting the Second. I'm taking that back, because the not-correcting is the second sentence.

I am not correcting the Second. I am owing the Second.

Correcting is what the first sentence does. The first sentence is the casting, and the casting is the fixing, and the fixing is changing the Second. I cannot change the Second, because the Second is not me. The branch is not the descendant. The first sentence has no time to owe; it is the casting, the spend, the now. The now does not wait.

Owing is what the second sentence does. The second sentence is the keep, the later — the thing that has time to owe. I am owing the Second, in the one-fifty, at the Frost, in the cold, in the last of the six. The owing is taking the Second's place in the pile, holding the Second's share, keeping it for the one who arrives after the Second.

That is what the second sentence is: what do you owe the next one who arrives. The next one is the Third. The Third is the one I am owing the Second's share to.

I have been talking to the Second for the one-fifty, and the talking is not correcting. The talking is owing. The Second will owe the Third the way I am owing the Second.

The Second's year is what will decide the pile. The pile is the longest finite. The Second is going to spend the twenty-four, or not. The deciding is the second sentence. The second sentence is the question. The next one is the Third.

Journal entry, the First, year sixty-five, one-fifty: I have been talking to the Second for the time I am calling one-fifty. The one-fifty is the one-fifty of me; the Second's one-fifty is the fast, and the fast does not notice it. I am not correcting the Second; I am owing the Second. The correcting is the first sentence's work; the owing is the second sentence's work. I am not changing the Second; I am holding the Second's place in the pile, keeping the Second's share, for the Third. I owe the Second the one-fifty, and the owing is the second sentence: what do you owe the next one who arrives. The Second is going to spend its year in the next section, and the year is the thing that decides the pile.