Mule meets Hamlet
Grossman has a wonderful capacity to imagine the minds and feelings of animals, and while chronicling the horrors of man's...
Time-free flight
Like his daughter Athena, time stops where he’s concerned. Time-free flight – perhaps one day we will master that too,...
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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The slope of time
The more I connect with the past, the more I connect with the present, and I liked this use of...
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...
In this mottie, misty clime
Today is just as Burns describes in his poem 'The Vision', all 'mottie', misty and conducive to looking back and...
From mud to spirit
Yes, there is much you can do to transmute mud into brightness if you have enough time.
I love the...
Of time and tenses I
A fascinating insight into how we fold our perceptions of time into language, or language influences such perceptions. It made...
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...
Writing time and speeding clocks
Any absorbing activity has this magical effect of taking you almost outside of time, until you look at the clock...
Time in two dimensions
A striking metaphor for time hovering or collapsing, in two versions of a bird, alive and flying, or keeling and...
Thick with time
This conjures for me a heat-shimmering visibility to the normally invisible air, providing a sense of density that you can...
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