“The Aristocrats!”
…the gate is straight, deep and wide, break on through to the other side!
… And thereby hangs a tale.
Hmmm, I don’t think you remember the concept correctly, or else the source you saw was mixing up a poetic figure of speech with a formal quantitative definition.
The kalpa is formally defined in classical Indian cosmology as a period of 4,320,000,000 years. Yes, that period can be broken down into standard subunits such as mahayugas or manvantaras. But there’s nothing more intrinsically weird about its structure than about defining a century as 100 years or a millennium as 1000 years.
Why did we switch to plural at the end? Shouldn’t it be “millennium by millennium”? (Or, if we’re going the other way, “Hours by hours, days by days…”)
…until the heat-death of the universe.
THE END
Every episode seemed to last a Kalpa.
Days of our Lives was my first thought as well.
No, and that’s why he’s snickering over his morning coffee at this very moment! LOL
…creeps in this petty pace from day to day to the last syllable of recorded time.
…I have awaited a question.
…gonna make this garden grow.
Yes, it was a poetic figure of speech. I can’t remember the original source, but it came from my Zen teacher.