Deep in the Antartic wastelands, within one of the numerous penguin colonies there was a penguin who was different. He did not look like the other penguins; he did not think like other penguins. He was an anomaly. For a start, he wore horned-rimmed glasses that he found lying on the wreckage of an ancient whaling ship that floundered and was stuck in the ice close to where he lived. All the other penguins mocked him for wearing glasses. What they did not know, was that he loved reading the books found on the whaling ship.
The narrator's scientific approach to life, and his relatively accepting reaction when he discovers that time, as he perceives it, will eventually stop, indicates that perhaps he is better off knowing his fate. He seems much more interested in learning about how the universe works, regardless of what conclusions his findings take him to. Perhaps not all of his people will react to the news the same way, but the narrator himself is likely better off knowing why time appears to be speeding up, as satisfying his curiosity about the world seems to be his primary objective.
