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

Strange Days

Sven Birkerts

The Grand Illusion

Jim Holt

Reelin’ in the Years

Colin Dickey

Time After Time

John Crowley

Map

Marking Time

Miscellany

“Man is the only being that knows death.”

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

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

William Paley justifies the existence of God.

Karl Marx on the clock and the mill.

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

Charlemagne receives a mechanical clock.

A calendar of smells.

Henry Ford lives for the present.

Revolutionary France abolishes the Gregorian calendar.

Arthur Eddington observes Einstein’s relativity.

The Plank telescope estimates the age of the universe.

“African time is killing Africa.”

Geoffrey Chaucer considers his shadow.

Samuel Beckett attends a doubleheader.

Voices In Time

Living History

c. 1825 | Berlin

The Incarnate Now Is Supreme

1919 | Pangbourne

Golden Gleam of Youth

1805 | Grasmere

Raising the Stakes

c. 1503 | London

Forcing a Reevaluation

1916 | Berlin

Daylight Savings

1784 | Paris

The Blessed Calm of Nonexistence

1851 | Frankfurt

Time-Management Skills

1903 | Philadelphia

Stephen Hawking Travels Back in Time

2005 | Cambridge

Man vs. Animal

1874 | Basel

Pure Duration

1889 | Paris

A Peculiar Sensation

1895 | London

Not Fade Away

1609 | London

A Fancied Dot

1317 | Tabriz

Of Things That Exist

c. 330 BC | Athens

The Best Is Yet to Come

1889 | Hartford, CT

The Foundation of Our Intuitions

1781 | Königsberg

Time Well Spent

1899 | Chicago

Like Day and Night

1925 | Dayton, TN

Literal Interpretation

c. 50 BC | Judaea

Now or Never

1966 | Australia

Toward the Precipice of Death

1742 | Welwyn

Not a Millisecond to Spare

2006 | New Jersey

Under the Gun

1849 | St. Petersburg

Hacked-Up Days

c. 195 | Rome

Punching In

2012 | United States

Declaration of War

1906 | Dunsany

Tomorrow and Yesterday

1871 | Oxford

On the Contrary

1863 | Amherst, MA

Infinite Path

c. 524 | Pavia

The Forsaking of Works

1854 | Concord, MA

A Race Against Time

1872 | London

Moment of Reckoning

c. 1590 | London

Charts and Graphs

Body Rhythms

In the Blink of an Eye

Last Stands

Lived Time

Day Planners

Doing Time

It Took...

Dollars per Minute

Save the Date

Contributors

Conversations

Sir Francis Bacon & John Ruskin

Thucydides & Alexis de Tocqueville

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz & Susan Sontag

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