getting cozy with Ole’ Man Time

“If you knew Time as well as I do,” said the Hatter, “you wouldn’t talk about wasting it. It’s him.”

“I don’t know what you mean,” said Alice.

“Of course you don’t!’ the Hatter said, tossing his head contemptuously. ÔI dare say you never even spoke to Time!” ( Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland)

Getting a firm grasp on time. On the one hand, Time, as an object, objective, given an existence of god, must be sustained by the will of the Creator. On the other, it must feel itself as a detached, separate  and a distinct entity of its own.which is the basis of a very protracted and dynamic conflict at the heart of an identity crisis, chronic and perpetual concerning the role of Time as the intermediary, the buffer, the liaison, connecting creative force and created being. The binder between space and the cosmic soul with Time representing the process of being instead of the content of being.

---Time in the real world and time in Narnia are not the same. In The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, the narrator explains: Narnian time flows differently from ours. If you spent a hundred years in Narnia, you would still come back to our world at the very same hour of the very same day you left. And then, if you went back to Narnia after spending a week here, you might find that a thousand Narnian years had passed, or only a day, or no time at all. You never know till you get there.---click image for source...

—Time in the real world and time in Narnia are not the same. In The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, the narrator explains:
Narnian time flows differently from ours. If you spent a hundred years in Narnia, you would still come back to our world at the very same hour of the very same day you left. And then, if you went back to Narnia after spending a week here, you might find that a thousand Narnian years had passed, or only a day, or no time at all. You never know till you get there.—click image for source…

On a more profound level, Time can be comprehended not as the order of things, or even as the pulsations of  creative energy which generates a world, but as the foundation concept that makes this possible. The order of things, the seemingly non-chaotic and an understandable or at least palatable  rhythm of existence is due to the concept concept as Time as a framework. Things happen within Time but are not connected to its essence, and that essence cannot be known directly and can only be described by events that occur within it.  …

At first sight the ability to look back into Time would seem the most wonderful power that could be given to humanity. All lost knowledge would be recovered, all mysteries explained, all crimes solved, all hidden treasures found. Perhaps we might even reach the stage so poetically described by H.G. Wells in his short story The Grisley Folk:

A day may come when these recovered memories may grow as vivid as if we in our own persons had been there and shared the thrill and the fear of those primordial days; a day may come when the great beasts of the past will leap to life again in our imaginations, when we shall walk again in vanished scenes, stretch painted limbs we thought were dust, and feel again the sunshine of a million years ago.

---Yes, that’s right – “The Clock” is a 24-hour-long mash-up of clips showing each minute of the day from hundreds of films, unfolding in real time. In other words, if you want to catch the “Rain Man” scene, you better be in your seat at 12:30 p.m.---click image for source...

—Yes, that’s right – “The Clock” is a 24-hour-long mash-up of clips showing each minute of the day from hundreds of films, unfolding in real time. In other words, if you want to catch the “Rain Man” scene, you better be in your seat at 12:30 p.m.—click image for source…

With such powers would be like gods, able to roam at will down the ages. But only gods, surely, are fit to possess such powers. If the past were suddenly opened up to our inspection, we would be overwhelmed not only by the sheer mass of material but by the brutality, horror, and tragedy of the centuries that lie behind us. Also, how would we care for the idea for the idea that at some unknown time in the future, people not unlike ourselves may be peering into our own lives, watching all our follies and vices as well as our virtues? A still worse possibility is that the voyeurs of some decadent future age may use their perverted science to spy upon our lives. Yet perhaps even that is better than the prospect that we may be too simple and archaic to interest them at all.

--- Quidor's work Rip Van Winkle was inspired by the romantic and fantastic scenes from 1820 tale of Washington Irving. Irving's character, Rip Van Winkle is a hunter living in New York in 1760's. One day walking in the Catskill Mountains he is lured into a secluded glen by a strange and small man. Rip decides to join the man and his companions in a game of bowling. While they play, Rip drinks a mysterious potion that makes him fall asleep for twenty years. This painting illustrates the most dramatic moment of the story when Rip wakes up and returns home, it is Election Day and everything has changed. People are crowded around him, not recognizing him. They are questioning him while he is trying to explain himself and at the same time make sense of his surroundings.---click image for source...

—John Quidor’s work Rip Van Winkle was inspired by the romantic and fantastic scenes from 1820 tale of Washington Irving. Irving’s character, Rip Van Winkle is a hunter living in New York in 1760′s. One day walking in the Catskill Mountains he is lured into a secluded glen by a strange and small man. Rip decides to join the man and his companions in a game of bowling. While they play, Rip drinks a mysterious potion that makes him fall asleep for twenty years. This painting illustrates the most dramatic moment of the story when Rip wakes up and returns home, it is Election Day and everything has changed. People are crowded around him, not recognizing him. They are questioning him while he is trying to explain hims

and at the same time make sense of his surroundings.—click image for source…

Time travel cannot really be taken very seriously, yet it remains fascinating by appealing to deep instincts in humankind, and for that reason it will never die. More realistically than Time travel to the past is varying the rate at which we move, or appear to move, into the future: distortions of Time through the use of drugs. We may be able to slow it down, making possible the old dream of suspended animation and a one-way trip into the future like Rip Van Winkel’s, but we cannot accelerate it by means of drugs to the point of running two minute miles.

…There is a very important point about Time: When we say that Time begins, this does not imply that it is preceded by its absence. This absence of Time, non-Time, implies and additional concept of Time, an immeasurable Time, so we have Time and its absence, or at least the conceptual possibility, of Time and its absence as parallel fictions comprising tow sides of a simple and unique expression…( to be continued)…

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