Fitness instructor carves his girlfriend’s name into the Colosseum.
A Dance to the Music of Time, by Nicolas Poussin, c. 1635. Wallace Collection, London.
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“Kings embodied the whole period of their reign,” wrote Elias Canetti in Crowds and Power. “Their death, whether it came with the decline of their strength or, as later, coincided with their natural span of life, indicated a break in time. They were time. Between one king and the next, time stood still. There was a gap in it—an interregnum—which people sought to keep as short as possible.”
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
—Frank Zappa, 1989Lapham’sDaily
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