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Tag Archives: Time
1991: Time’s Arrow
In Martin Amis’s 1991 novel, Time’s Arrow, time flows backwards. It’s not simply that the events are narrated in reverse order; rather, it’s as if the characters were in a film being show in reverse. Here’s how eating works, for … Continue reading
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Tagged 1990's, 20th Century, Books, Fascism, Germany, Great Britain, Holocaust, Josef Mengele, Martin Amis, Time, Writing, WWII
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1987: Not Like a River
The river-of-time metaphor symbolises the flow of time as the steady movement of a current along with all the flotsam it carries—and the events we experience are depicted by the particular pieces of flotsam being carried along past us by … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980's, 20th Century, Great Britain, Keith Seddon, Philosophy, Rivers, Time
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1985: Calendar Man!
Batman Vol. 1, #384 (June, 1985); cover artists Paris Cullins and Anthony Tollin
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Tagged 1980's, 20th Century, Anthony Tollin, Art, Batman, Comics, Paris Cullins, Time, USA
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1810: Do You Have the Time?
Watchmaker: Isaac Penard (Swiss, 1619–1676) Casemaker: probably the Firm of Moulinié, Bautte & Moynier (Swiss, 1808–21) Case ca. 1810–20, movement ca. 1650 (source)
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Tagged 17th Century, 19th Century, Design, Horology, Switzerland, Time
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1904: A Nightmare
In 1904…I was staying at the Hotel Scholastika, on the borders of the Aachensee, in Austria. I dreamed one night that I was walking down a sort of pathway between two fields, separated from these last by high iron railings, … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century, Animals, Austria, Books, Dreams, Great Britain, Horses, J. W. Dunne, Oddities, Psychology, Time
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