Time gets marked a lot.
By more pieces, great and small.
Those hourglasses.
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Ito placed hourglasses from his collection he kept in his chambers on his bench as a hint to the lawyers to move things along. He also bought large school-type clocks on all four walls of the courtroom for their benefit. I must admit, I sat in the back of the courtroom wishing he would tell them out loud, only the words in my head were, “sit down and shut up”.
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