What is waiting to be told: the return of ticktock. But now time is counting down to an end, not a birth; there is, too, a weariness to be mentioned, a general fatigue so profound that the end, when it comes, will be the only solution, because human beings, like nations and fictional characters, can simply run out of steam, and then theres nothing for it but to finish with them.

How a piece fell out of the moon, and Saleem achieved purity… the clock is ticking now; and because all countdowns require a zero, let me state that the end came on September 22nd, 1965; and that the precise instant of the arrival at zero was, inevitably, the stroke of midnight. Although the old grandfather clock in my aunt Alias house, which kept accurate time but always chimed two minutes late, never had a chance to strike.

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