'one damn thing after another' and time as concentrated in kairoi.

1 This is of course complicated by the fact that Smith refers to the

Greek Septuagint, in which the antithesis between kairos and chronos is obviously present.`Nevertheless, the relationship between
temporal experience and the languages in which such


1
Frank Kermode, The Sense of an Ending (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1967), pp. 47-8.