Time as oil
A remarkable description of time passing, which makes it sound slow and cloying.
‘The following weeks flowed over us like...
Caught in your own time
Time is a theme which enthralls me, in particular the extent to which we are shaped by our time (century,...
Of time and place
Time occupies my mind spaciously, and yet I'd never thought of it like this. Is it true? Think about your...
Slow-drifting years
Something memorable fresh and sharp in the mind even after many 'slow-drifting years'.
An unusual concept as for me, and...
Of time and tenses II
Another angle on language and how it shapes or at least influences our perception of time. Here Adam Nicolson discusses...
Time-free flight
Like his daughter Athena, time stops where he’s concerned. Time-free flight – perhaps one day we will master that too,...
Letters and the lapse of time
A moving comment on the effects of time and separation, and the hiatus of news caused by war. Firstly, the...
A visitation from a minor god
The past is a place which enriches me in almost all I do, and I love travelling there as much...
Summary impatience
I liked this sharp injunction to Dante to hurry up and spit it out. You can imagine an impatient parent...
Of time and trees
Saint-Exupéry shows starkly how war changes the calculus on a sixpence. Trees which have been nurtured and enjoyed for hundreds...
Of time and water
A heartening description of time as the great irrigator of the world. See another such ripening interpretation by Kazantzakis.
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Time and poets
This summary of where Mandelstam places the poet versus the ‘man of letters’ on the time spectrum intrigues me. Yes,...
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