from "Time's Pendulum" by Jo Ellen Barnett (introduction):

   "...that time has no structure, but only a character which can be universally applied to it. In comparison with the intricate and exotic world of matter, time looks quite colorless. What is there to say except that there is an enormous amount of it, that it is relative rather than absolute, and that, incomprehensible as it might seem, it appears that it not only had a beginning but that it may have an end as well?"

   What is there to say except that if there be an amount of something then it has 2 have a beginning and an end?