A Dance to the Music of Time, by Nicolas Poussin, c. 1635.

A Dance to the Music of Time, by Nicolas Poussin, c. 1635. Wallace Collection, London.

Time

Volume VII, Number 4 | fall 2014

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Captain Clock

Lewis H. Lapham

Time After Time

John Crowley

The Grand Illusion

Jim Holt

Reelin’ in the Years

Colin Dickey

Strange Days

Sven Birkerts

Map

Marking Time

Miscellany

“Man is the only being that knows death.”

Karl Marx on the clock and the mill.

Geoffrey Chaucer considers his shadow.

Charlemagne receives a mechanical clock.

The clock that won’t lose time for 300 million years.

In 1339, the clock strikes for the Duke of Milan.

“African time is killing Africa.”

Henry Ford lives for the present.

William Paley justifies the existence of God.

A calendar of smells.

Arthur Eddington observes Einstein’s relativity.

Revolutionary France abolishes the Gregorian calendar.

The Plank telescope estimates the age of the universe.

“Between one king and the next, time stood still.”

Samuel Beckett attends a doubleheader.

Voices In Time

The Best Is Yet to Come

1889 | Hartford, CT

Daylight Savings

1784 | Paris

Forcing a Reevaluation

1916 | Berlin

Of Things That Exist

c. 330 BC | Athens

Declaration of War

1906 | Dunsany

Like Day and Night

1925 | Dayton, TN

On the Contrary

1863 | Amherst, MA

Man vs. Animal

1874 | Basel

Golden Gleam of Youth

1805 | Grasmere

A Fancied Dot

1317 | Tabriz

Living History

c. 1825 | Berlin

Time-Management Skills

1903 | Philadelphia

Raising the Stakes

c. 1503 | London

The Blessed Calm of Nonexistence

1851 | Frankfurt

A Peculiar Sensation

1895 | London

Time Well Spent

1899 | Chicago

Under the Gun

1849 | St. Petersburg

Tomorrow and Yesterday

1871 | Oxford

Infinite Path

c. 524 | Pavia

Not Fade Away

1609 | London

The Foundation of Our Intuitions

1781 | Königsberg

Pure Duration

1889 | Paris

The Forsaking of Works

1854 | Concord, MA

Not a Millisecond to Spare

2006 | New Jersey

Toward the Precipice of Death

1742 | Welwyn

Literal Interpretation

c. 50 BC | Judaea

Punching In

2012 | United States

Stephen Hawking Travels Back in Time

2005 | Cambridge

The Incarnate Now Is Supreme

1919 | Pangbourne

Hacked-Up Days

c. 195 | Rome

Moment of Reckoning

c. 1590 | London

A Race Against Time

1872 | London

Now or Never

1966 | Australia

Charts and Graphs

Lived Time

Body Rhythms

Day Planners

In the Blink of an Eye

Dollars per Minute

Doing Time

Last Stands

Keeping Time

Save the Date

It Took...

Contributors

Conversations

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz & Susan Sontag

Sir Francis Bacon & John Ruskin

Thucydides & Alexis de Tocqueville

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