TAKING TIME
“Every river, as we know, must have banks on both sides, so where, seen in those terms, where are the banks of time? What would be this river’s qualities, qualities perhaps corresponding to those of water, which is fluid, rather heavy, and translucent? In what way do objects immersed in time differ from those left untouched by it? Why do we show the hours of light and darkness in the same circle? Why does time stand eternally still and motionless in one place, and rush headlong by in another? Could we not claim, said Austerlitz, that time itself has been nonconcurrent over the centuries and the millennia? It is not so long ago, after all, that it began spreading out over everything. And is not human life in many parts of the earth governed to this day less by time than by the weather, and thus by an unquantifiable dimension which disregards linear regularity, does not progress constantly forward but moves in eddies, is marked by episodes of congestion and irruption, recurs in ever-changing form, and evolves in no one knows what direction?”
W G Sebald, Austerlitz Image below, long exposure pinhole photograph of the Pacific Ocean, Kaikoura, place of ancient memories … while the light seeps in through the pinhole, forming the image, the waves become blurred, such that the sea appears to become sand … taking a photograph of time itself.
W G Sebald, Austerlitz Image below, long exposure pinhole photograph of the Pacific Ocean, Kaikoura, place of ancient memories … while the light seeps in through the pinhole, forming the image, the waves become blurred, such that the sea appears to become sand … taking a photograph of time itself.
Soundtrack: Joy Division, Atmosphere
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