SO, SWIFTLY, SPED THE next weeks, and Bobby was not able, afterward, to tell where they had gone. Time lightens labor; labor hastens time. But fleeing hours left in their wake tangible evidence of their passage—a change, a growth in Delta Port.
One of Pop’s first moves had been an attempted reorganization of their work-hours on an Eros basis.
“We cannot here,” he explained, “try to maintain our Earthly habit of sleeping through night hours, working during the day. Therefore—”
And he laid out for them an intricate and elaborate “nine day week” he had devised; broken into alternate sleep-and-labor, meal-and-recreation periods. It was an ingenious system. But—
It didn’t work.
Despite previous habits, after a short time men and women, old and young alike, found themselves growing drowsy a
