You are listening to songs on shuffle while you read.
A Venetian Snares (for example) track ends and the next one kicks off with a lo-res sample of an aged, professorial type saying “sickness… unto death. the human being is spirit, but what IS spirit?”
You think, “Sure. Neat sample. This makes sense.” and you keep reading.
Twenty minutes and five pages later, the “sample” is still going and you suddenly realize that a lecture on Kierkegaard somehow ended up in your playlist.
There is no Time 