books.google.ca - When life seemed pointless to Norton, he accepted the position as the Incarnation of Time, even though it meant living backward from present to past. The other seemingly all-powerful incantations of Immortality--Death, Fate, War, and Nature--made him welcome. Even Satan greeted him with gifts. But he...http://books.google.ca/books/about/Bearing_an_Hourglass.html?id=71tXFfvYO0gC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareBearing an Hourglass