Kalyani Tupkary

What used to be specific events or activities, like answering emails, have gradually become ongoing  processes . “Speeding up” a continuous process means to overclock, to intensify; it can’t ever mean to end or conclude

But while nature may mete out time’s passage in these horological devices, it takes human observation of the heavens to set them. Even the most precise atomic clock must be periodically tweaked to account for variations in the earth’s rotation. Some clocks, however, are tuned more directly to nature.

Is there a “Rosebud” object in your past? A long-vanished thing that lingers in your memory—whether you want it to or not? As much as we may treasure the stuff we own, perhaps just as significant are the objects we have, in one way or another, lost. What is it about these bygone objects? Why do they continue to haunt us long after they’ve vanished

They're tall. They're totally absurd. And they're everywhere.