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On Salvador Dali’s “The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory”
There is something unsettling about Salvador Dali’s The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory (1954). On the face of it, it looks like an outdoor scene composed of water, sky, and mountains. But what about those rectangular blocks and melting clocks? The blocks convey one time sense moving forward in an orderly way. But the blocks Continue reading
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On Timing And The Nature Of Blogging
Recently I’ve been experimenting with timers–using countdown apps on my phone to time whatever it is I’m working on. Lest you think I’m one of those people who are overly into the analytics of timing everything–I’m not (yet). No, I’m one of those people who generally loses track of time and looks up to marvel at Continue reading
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Three (Fictional) Grooves On (Real) Advice
It takes as long as it takes. 1. That was her advice to me. Take your time–meaning: don’t go slow per se, but move at just the right cadence and clip, claim the time, make it yours, grasp its contours, bring it with you, take it somewhere, play with it and examine its parts, unravel Continue reading
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On Running, Time, And The Flow Of Non-Thinking Thinking: Running With The Kenyans
Among the joys of Adharanand Finn’s Running With The Kenyans, a succinct and engaging tale of the author’s experiences long distance running training at high altitude in the East African countryside, is the realization that there aren’t really any secrets to East African running prowess besides constant training, continuous pushing of body boundaries, as well Continue reading
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Representing Time: On Christian Marclay’s “The Clock”
While I was in Ottawa last week, timing would have it that Christian Marclay’s epic video installation piece The Clock was showing at the National Gallery. I of course made a point of going to see it. The Clock is a 24-hour video collage composed of thousands of film clips (culled from the entire history Continue reading
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On Embracing The (Repetitious) Mundane: Two Works By Jean-Philippe Toussaint
I recently discovered some short novels by French novelist Jean-Philippe Toussaint. In his books Monsieur (1986) and Television (1997), Toussaint explores with whimsical yet clinical detail the dynamics of repetition–along with the virtues of doing very little to get by in life so that its textures and contours are revealed to us. In Monsieur, our otherwise unnamed protagonist Continue reading
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On Being Perpetually Mindful
There is an iPhone app called Countdown Pro which is a backwards moving digital clock that counts down from any duration in days, hours, minutes and seconds, allowing you to input multiple events on far off dates and then keep tabs on their impending arrival. I suppose the app is one way to grasp time’s ongoing flow and the metamessage Continue reading
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