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

Reelin’ in the Years

Colin Dickey

Time After Time

John Crowley

The Grand Illusion

Jim Holt

Strange Days

Sven Birkerts

Map

Marking Time

Miscellany

Charlemagne receives a mechanical clock.

“African time is killing Africa.”

Karl Marx on the clock and the mill.

Revolutionary France abolishes the Gregorian calendar.

Arthur Eddington observes Einstein’s relativity.

The Plank telescope estimates the age of the universe.

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

Henry Ford lives for the present.

William Paley justifies the existence of God.

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

Geoffrey Chaucer considers his shadow.

“Man is the only being that knows death.”

Samuel Beckett attends a doubleheader.

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

A calendar of smells.

Voices In Time

Like Day and Night

1925 | Dayton, TN

Toward the Precipice of Death

1742 | Welwyn

Raising the Stakes

c. 1503 | London

Not Fade Away

1609 | London

Infinite Path

c. 524 | Pavia

Of Things That Exist

c. 330 BC | Athens

On the Contrary

1863 | Amherst, MA

Time Well Spent

1899 | Chicago

The Best Is Yet to Come

1889 | Hartford, CT

Man vs. Animal

1874 | Basel

Forcing a Reevaluation

1916 | Berlin

Moment of Reckoning

c. 1590 | London

Under the Gun

1849 | St. Petersburg

Hacked-Up Days

c. 195 | Rome

Daylight Savings

1784 | Paris

Literal Interpretation

c. 50 BC | Judaea

Pure Duration

1889 | Paris

The Forsaking of Works

1854 | Concord, MA

Time-Management Skills

1903 | Philadelphia

Declaration of War

1906 | Dunsany

A Race Against Time

1872 | London

A Fancied Dot

1317 | Tabriz

Tomorrow and Yesterday

1871 | Oxford

Golden Gleam of Youth

1805 | Grasmere

Punching In

2012 | United States

Now or Never

1966 | Australia

The Incarnate Now Is Supreme

1919 | Pangbourne

Not a Millisecond to Spare

2006 | New Jersey

The Blessed Calm of Nonexistence

1851 | Frankfurt

Living History

c. 1825 | Berlin

Stephen Hawking Travels Back in Time

2005 | Cambridge

A Peculiar Sensation

1895 | London

The Foundation of Our Intuitions

1781 | Königsberg

Charts and Graphs

In the Blink of an Eye

Save the Date

Doing Time

It Took...

Lived Time

Last Stands

Body Rhythms

Day Planners

Dollars per Minute

Contributors

Conversations

Sir Francis Bacon & John Ruskin

Thucydides & Alexis de Tocqueville

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz & Susan Sontag

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