Time

Clock: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnm8PVx3HYw

Christian Marclay, The Clock



Time

How do we conceive of time?
How does it operate?
Can we live in more than one time at once?
(thinking about Remembrance Day: imagining the men in the trenches 100 years ago, thinking about the men and women after that, and the situation now, and then imagining the soldiers of the future.)

-recounting past event: I went to the store. It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.
(every photograph is of a past event)


-memory, flashback, nostalgia,
-rewriting the past,
-forgetting, remembering a memory and not the event itself

-awareness of what will happen
-prophesy, prediction
-deja vu.
-deja vu all over again . (i.e. everything seemed like it has happened before and keeps happening)

-imagining, fantasizing,

-mythical past, a kind of past out of time
"Once upon a time'

-dream states

-drama changing how time flows:
"my whole life flashed before me." "time stopped."
--or boredom changing how it flowed: "It was so boring, it seemed time slowed down."
"so exciting everything passed by in a flash."

-conditional future: what might happen, what should.

-recounting events backwards, following the causal chain. (detective?)

https://fiftywordstories.com/tag/palindrome/:

Stories written backwards really are nonsense. Unpublishable as discarded tales collecting dust. Misunderstood. Why are words tricky? How one shows irony of knowing without knowledge.

Knowledge, without knowing of irony, shows one how tricky words are. Why? Misunderstood, dust collecting tales discarded as unpublishable nonsense, are really backwards written stories.

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Palindrome story: http://spinelessbooks.com/2002/palindrome/

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EINSTEIN'S DREAMS by Alan Lightman


1. Write a prose piece embodying how time moves in some noticeably different way.
2. Write a contrasting piece where time moves in a noticeable different way that the one you just wrote.