FUGUE
I keep wondering how exactly one perceives time. I know everyone sees it as a line. The reason for that is, however, that not more than one experience can fill a moment. They come one at a time. If you're lucky, they come very quickly, and you get to experience the richest detail in the closest period of time.
As if experience is comprised of the proximity of moments.
Really, though, you experience time in moments, and it's not always a linear process. You don't get out of be and wonder where the line is. You experience a moment of chair to desk to paper to phone to not-desk to conversation...and so on. Distraction and awareness helps you keep ot filter moments, and memory keeps your perspective.
So what happens when you lose your perspective? In American Splendor, Harvey Pekar cryptically states that during his battle with cancer "time passed strangely". And the way he said it just struck a chord. Something was off in his perceptions, off in his life. But had he ever before given thought to his ordering of perceptions? Without knowing how his body and mind had processed time, was Harvey unprepared for something to go wrong with his faculties? Can we ever be ready?
As if experience is comprised of the proximity of moments.
Really, though, you experience time in moments, and it's not always a linear process. You don't get out of be and wonder where the line is. You experience a moment of chair to desk to paper to phone to not-desk to conversation...and so on. Distraction and awareness helps you keep ot filter moments, and memory keeps your perspective.
So what happens when you lose your perspective? In American Splendor, Harvey Pekar cryptically states that during his battle with cancer "time passed strangely". And the way he said it just struck a chord. Something was off in his perceptions, off in his life. But had he ever before given thought to his ordering of perceptions? Without knowing how his body and mind had processed time, was Harvey unprepared for something to go wrong with his faculties? Can we ever be ready?