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Posted: 06 May 2019

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So it is with time. Whenever we talk about it, we do so in terms of something lesser. We find or lose time, like a set of keys; we save and spend it, like money. Time creeps, crawls, flies, flees, flows, and stands still; it is abundant of scarce; it weighs on us with palpable heft. Bells toll for a ‘long’ or ‘short’ time, as if their sound could be measured with a ruler. Childhood recedes, deadlines loom. The contemporary philosophers George Lakoff and Mark Johnson have proposed a thought experiment: take a moment and try to address time strictly in its own terms, stripping any metaphor. You’ll be left empty-handed. “Would time still be time for us if we could not ‘waste’ or ‘budget’ it? They wonder. “We think not” xii Forward

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 Jaap van 't Veen
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Wonderful - and razor sharp - details.
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