“In the
beginning everyone is a beginner. That’s
the first thing. Some think the
conventions of time can save you if you get a handle on the arm of the clock. You only need that if you’re talking the thin
kind of time that rushes past you so quickly that you feel you might go over
the rapids. That thin time really
slides but of course it’s no good. No
good at all. And besides, now people
just get swept away. Now there’s not
even the little hand to grab hold of.
Digital changed all that. Now they’re just doing some serious numbers
crunching. Try to survive that.”
“First we
got turned around chasing the spheres in the sky. Then from the sun and moon going through all
their phases like the stilted, speedy rhythm of time lapse photography folks
got dizzy. They had to sit down till the swirling settled. Something had to be done. Someone called for organization”
“Too bad
everybody forgot about the options we had.
Now so many are just rushing down the road hoping boulders don’t drop a
dime on them. Hoping it ain’t their time
yet. Thin time, what’s known as linear
time tends to pull us into pieces. We
become fragmented and even separated from our own experiences. Our conception of time is now a pale, melted
Dali watch. There are deeper layers of
time, richer than this surface tick tock telling of events. Do not deny the shadows. The spaces between.”
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