Share your references for TIMEJan 08

Books, films, songs, quotes...

- "Memory is like a dog that lies down where it pleases" Cees Noteboom

- "Where do the long, lazy summers of our childhood go? Why is it that as we grow older time seems to condense, speed up, elude us while in old age significant events from our distant past can seem as vivid and real as what happened yesterday?" Why Life Speeds Up As You Get Older- Douwe Draaisma

-"The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once." Buckaroo Banzai (Chelsea Spear-Boston)

-"Does time itself reveal itself as the horizon of being". Being and Time by Martin Hiedegger. (Aysegul Eubanks- Istanbul)

- "A manifesto for time and against clocks, a polemic against the dreary, playless, time of modernity, and an exploration of how indigenous cultures see time..." Pip Pip: A Sideways Look at Time by Jay Griffiths 

"When a man is asleep, he has circle round him the chain of the hours, the sequence of the years order of the heavenly host. When he awakes, he looks to these, and in an instant reads off his own position on the earth's surface and the time that has elapsed his slumbers; but ordered procession is apt to grow confused and to break its ranks. " Remembrance of Things Past- Swann's Way, Marcel Proust

Slow Time: Recovering te natural Rhythm of Life by Waverly Fitzgerald

"....in reality all time
is eternally present, that is, that past, present and future are all
happening together in some way. Human consciousness, however,
experiences this simultaneity in linear form...." from the book An Experiment with Time by J.W Dunne

“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.” from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by  Douglas Adams

"The mental and emotional tension resulting from man's discovery that every living creature is born and dies, including himself, must have led him intuitively to seek some escape from the relentless flux of time..."  from the book ' What is time ' by G.J Whitrow





"...Speed is the form of extacy the technical revolution has bestowed on man...."  from the book Slowness by Milan Kundera.