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Last night, Keith Olbermann was describing an episode of Rod Serling’s “The Twilight Zone” because he was discussing an actor who had died. After he finished the description, I got the shivers. A heartbeat later, Olbermann himself shivered. Until that moment, I had forgotten how “The Twilight Zone” could do that to me. The storytelling was creepy, but original and spot-on and unpredictable. The episode I most remember was the one in which there was a crew of people building the minutes ahead of the rest of us. They were constructing everything in our world before we got there. Sometimes they left their blue tools behind. And sometimes, they forgot to add something to the scene, which is why we can’t always find our keys. We didn’t misplace our stuff. The people building the minutes did. Doesn’t that make you feel better?