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.

Map

Marking Time

A journey into deep space and deep time.

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Miscellany

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.

1784 | Paris

Daylight Savings

Benjamin Franklin suggests using sunshine instead of candles.More

c. 50 BC | Judaea

Literal Interpretation

How can a man sleep or be like a dreamer for seventy years?More

c. 1503 | London

Raising the Stakes

Thomas More encounters fame, time, and eternity.More

Charts & Graphs

Chart showing body growth and regeneration.

Body Rhythms

Growth and regeneration, from blood cells to taste buds.

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T.S. Eliot

Portrait of Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz in a nun's habit.

St. Benedict

Photograph of Lord Dunsany

Photograph of Jorge Luis Borges

Painting of Benjamin Franklin reading a batch of papers next to a classical bust.

Engraving of Roman poet Horace.

Black and white photograph of C. P. Cavafy wearing thick-rimmed black glasses.

The past is always tense and the future, perfect.

—Zadie Smith, 2000

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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