Preamble

Captain Clock

By Lewis H. Lapham

From overtime to downtime, spending time to saving time, the uses and abuses of our minutes and days.

Does time have a future? Yes, but how much of a future depends on what the ultimate fate of the cosmos turns out to be.

During convalescence it grows hard to tell the difference between when to pass the time and when to allow time to pass through.

Can there be a more terrifying revelation than the present moment? Reconsidering Virginia Woolf’s time-warped novel Orlando.

It’s possible to live in more than one time, more than one history of the world, without feeling a pressing need to reconcile them.