ABSTRACT
In the year 30070 a revolutionary discovery took place. It is from that event, and in honour of it, that our present time-scale originates. It is difficult at this time—300 n-years later—to be sure of the events; even something as simple as the fabular meaning of n.y. tends to be obscured in the minds of the vulgar by still older fables and associated locutions. The present writer has met with lower orders who believe the letters to stand for ‘new years’ or ‘nuclear years’, under the impression that our time-scale derives from a supposed atomic disaster occurring in year 1 of our era. In so far as it is possible to reconstitute the past from the scanty remains, something resembling the following account took place.
