A Dance to the Music of Time, by Nicolas Poussin, c. 1635. Wallace Collection, London.
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The Ongee of the Andaman Islands base their calendar on smell: their names for seasons derive from the flowers that are in bloom at the time.
Time is a veil interposed between God and ourselves, as our eyelid is between our eye and the light.
—François-René de Chateaubriand, c. 1820
