midnight
I know a little about Korzybski and how he wanted everybody to make what he called a cortico-thalamic pause whenever they get scared as hell . So I was making this cortico-thalamic pause , which is really counting to ten before you do anything , while Lottie was leaving the house . When I got through with my pause , I jumped backward over my kitchen chair so hard that I must have knocked my head on the tile sink-board . When I came to , it was after midnight . The kitchen light was still on . Lottie was still gone . I knew it .