Besides the most obvious meaning of this phrase, a kind of memento mori about the
link brevity of life, there's also a separate subtext for bibliophiles like us: there's never enough time to read the books we want, and never enough books about time. I know as
link a reader I heavily identify with the first part of that subtext and as a librarian at the Horological Society of New York (HSNY), the second. This bookplate, and the
link book it adorns, belonged to the late Silvio Bedini (1917-2007).