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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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.

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A medieval calendar for February.

Time After Time

By John Crowley

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.

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An infographic showing a map of deep space and deep time.

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Marking Time

A journey into deep space and deep time.

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Miscellany

“Man is the only being that knows death; all others become old, but with a consciousness wholly limited to the moment which must seem to them eternal. We are time,” writes Oswald Spengler in The Decline of the West.

1919 | Pangbourne

The Incarnate Now Is Supreme

Poetry is the voice of the far future or of the magnificent past.More

1805 | Grasmere

Golden Gleam of Youth

The moment William Wordsworth will never forget.More

1784 | Paris

Daylight Savings

Benjamin Franklin suggests using sunshine instead of candles.More

Charts & Graphs

Chart of prison sentences for famous people.

Doing Time

Prison sentences of the famous and infamous.

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Photograph of Oodergoo Noonuccal

Black-and-white photograph of Martin Luther King Jr. with his right hand lifted

Photograph of Jorge Luis Borges

Bust of Marcus Aurelius

Black and white photograph of Sven Birkerts sitting in front of a bookshelf.

Black and white image of Roman philosopher and statesman Seneca the Younger.

Image from an illuminated manuscript of Boethius teaching two students.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

—Marguerite Duras, 1987

Portrait of Francis Bacon in sixteenth-century armor.

Black and white photograph of a young John Ruskin wearing a suit.

Sir Francis Bacon & John Ruskin

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