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The order of time
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Linthicum Library - Adult Nonfiction
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From the Book
Perhaps time is the greatest remaining mystery
Part I: The crumbling of time. Loss of unity ; Loss of direction ; The end of the present ; Loss of independence ; Quanta of time
Part II: The world without time. The world is made of events, not things ; The inadequacy of grammar ; Dynamics as relation
Part III: The sources of time. Time is ignorance ; Perspective ; What emerges from a particularity ; The scent of the madeleine ; The source of time
The sister of sleep.
From the Large Print - Center Point Large Print edition.
Preface : perhaps time is the greatest remaining mystery
The crumbling of time
Loss of unity
Loss of direction
The end of the present
Loss of independence
Quanta of time
The world without time
The world is made of events, not things
The inadequacy of grammar
Dynamics as relation
The sources of time
Time is ignorance
Perspective
What emerges from a particularity
The scent of the madeleine
The source of time.