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

Time After Time

John Crowley

Strange Days

Sven Birkerts

Reelin’ in the Years

Colin Dickey

The Grand Illusion

Jim Holt

Map

Marking Time

Miscellany

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

“African time is killing Africa.”

Karl Marx on the clock and the mill.

Charlemagne receives a mechanical clock.

Henry Ford lives for the present.

A calendar of smells.

The Plank telescope estimates the age of the universe.

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

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

“Man is the only being that knows death.”

Geoffrey Chaucer considers his shadow.

William Paley justifies the existence of God.

Samuel Beckett attends a doubleheader.

Arthur Eddington observes Einstein’s relativity.

Revolutionary France abolishes the Gregorian calendar.

Voices In Time

Tomorrow and Yesterday

1871 | Oxford

Toward the Precipice of Death

1742 | Welwyn

A Race Against Time

1872 | London

Golden Gleam of Youth

1805 | Grasmere

Declaration of War

1906 | Dunsany

Literal Interpretation

c. 50 BC | Judaea

The Blessed Calm of Nonexistence

1851 | Frankfurt

Hacked-Up Days

c. 195 | Rome

Infinite Path

c. 524 | Pavia

Forcing a Reevaluation

1916 | Berlin

Pure Duration

1889 | Paris

Living History

c. 1825 | Berlin

The Foundation of Our Intuitions

1781 | Königsberg

The Best Is Yet to Come

1889 | Hartford, CT

A Peculiar Sensation

1895 | London

The Forsaking of Works

1854 | Concord, MA

Under the Gun

1849 | St. Petersburg

The Incarnate Now Is Supreme

1919 | Pangbourne

Stephen Hawking Travels Back in Time

2005 | Cambridge

Not Fade Away

1609 | London

Man vs. Animal

1874 | Basel

On the Contrary

1863 | Amherst, MA

A Fancied Dot

1317 | Tabriz

Time Well Spent

1899 | Chicago

Like Day and Night

1925 | Dayton, TN

Now or Never

1966 | Australia

Time-Management Skills

1903 | Philadelphia

Raising the Stakes

c. 1503 | London

Of Things That Exist

c. 330 BC | Athens

Daylight Savings

1784 | Paris

Not a Millisecond to Spare

2006 | New Jersey

Moment of Reckoning

c. 1590 | London

Punching In

2012 | United States

Charts and Graphs

Dollars per Minute

Doing Time

Last Stands

Body Rhythms

Lived Time

In the Blink of an Eye

Save the Date

Day Planners

It Took...

Contributors

Conversations

Sir Francis Bacon & John Ruskin

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz & Susan Sontag

Thucydides & Alexis de Tocqueville

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