My clever baton holds your unnatural sorcery in abeyance. - Jack Vance

All is mutability, and thus your three hundred terces has fluctuated to three.

“Still, moderation, I beg of all of you!”
“But not too much of it!” Dobbo called out. “We’d be defeating only ourselves. Moderation must be practiced in moderation.”

“Our ancient creed is correct. Rather than submitting to change we must divert the influences which conduce in such a direction.”
Ramus Imph listened with patient good humor. “The remarks of the sagacious Servant are persuasive, even though they fail to correspond with reality.”