Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Getting in the way of time ...

... Turn and Jump.

"There are many clocks," Einstein in 1905 proposed. "There is not time, but times." With this clue in hand, Mansfield goes rummaging through his native New Hampshire, searching for clocks that can take him deeper into time, trying to feel his way out of the empirical madness that has reduced time to minute universal increments that only shred human experience. Old journals and almanacs return him to "moon time." A New England mill reminds him that "Once time was a river" but has since become "money." Listen for the ticking, in all of its haunting variety, he implores: "There is always more than one clock in the room."

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