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

The Grand Illusion

Jim Holt

Reelin’ in the Years

Colin Dickey

Strange Days

Sven Birkerts

Map

Marking Time

Miscellany

The Plank telescope estimates the age of the universe.

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

“African time is killing Africa.”

A calendar of smells.

William Paley justifies the existence of God.

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

Samuel Beckett attends a doubleheader.

Geoffrey Chaucer considers his shadow.

Karl Marx on the clock and the mill.

Revolutionary France abolishes the Gregorian calendar.

“Man is the only being that knows death.”

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

Arthur Eddington observes Einstein’s relativity.

Charlemagne receives a mechanical clock.

Henry Ford lives for the present.

Voices In Time

Not a Millisecond to Spare

2006 | New Jersey

The Forsaking of Works

1854 | Concord, MA

The Foundation of Our Intuitions

1781 | Königsberg

A Fancied Dot

1317 | Tabriz

Forcing a Reevaluation

1916 | Berlin

Not Fade Away

1609 | London

Moment of Reckoning

c. 1590 | London

Man vs. Animal

1874 | Basel

Daylight Savings

1784 | Paris

Raising the Stakes

c. 1503 | London

Living History

c. 1825 | Berlin

The Best Is Yet to Come

1889 | Hartford, CT

Toward the Precipice of Death

1742 | Welwyn

Stephen Hawking Travels Back in Time

2005 | Cambridge

Under the Gun

1849 | St. Petersburg

Hacked-Up Days

c. 195 | Rome

Literal Interpretation

c. 50 BC | Judaea

A Peculiar Sensation

1895 | London

Time Well Spent

1899 | Chicago

Golden Gleam of Youth

1805 | Grasmere

Of Things That Exist

c. 330 BC | Athens

Like Day and Night

1925 | Dayton, TN

Now or Never

1966 | Australia

The Incarnate Now Is Supreme

1919 | Pangbourne

A Race Against Time

1872 | London

The Blessed Calm of Nonexistence

1851 | Frankfurt

On the Contrary

1863 | Amherst, MA

Infinite Path

c. 524 | Pavia

Declaration of War

1906 | Dunsany

Punching In

2012 | United States

Tomorrow and Yesterday

1871 | Oxford

Time-Management Skills

1903 | Philadelphia

Pure Duration

1889 | Paris

Charts and Graphs

Day Planners

In the Blink of an Eye

Save the Date

Doing Time

Last Stands

Body Rhythms

Dollars per Minute

Lived Time

It Took...

Contributors

Conversations

Thucydides & Alexis de Tocqueville

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz & Susan Sontag

Sir Francis Bacon & John Ruskin

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