I Didn’t See Time Go By – Senses of Cinema
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I Didn’t See Time Go By – Senses of Cinema
Deep down, we know this—that time is elastic, that some moments last for what seems like an eternity while others come and go in the blink of an eye. Research into time perception supports that many factors can impact how we process time. Emotional experiences are one such factor: time can seem to expand in moments of acute fear, sadness, or joy, m
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Our time was filled, but in a strange way it did not seem to pass.
Margaret Atwood • The Testaments: The Sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale
Before, time was just the medium in which life unfolded, the stuff that life was made of. Afterwards, once ‘time’ and ‘life’ had been separated in most people’s minds, time became a thing that you used – and it’s this shift that serves as the precondition for all the uniquely modern ways in which we struggle with time today.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks
Deep down, we know this—that time is elastic, that some moments last for what seems like an eternity while others come and go in the blink of an eye.
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World
Human beings went through the trouble of inventing rules that imposed limits on their lives, boxing them up into hours, days, and years. And then they invented clocks to make time’s rule over us even more precise.