Nobody's Falls

“The excesses of pathology offer a clue to the normal, and what the more extravagant disorders of temporality suggest is that inner time too may have its unwritten laws, or norms, and that these are very different from the rules and regulations of clock time. In the normal psyche, as in the mind under stress, inner temporality rarely follows the logic of chronology; or a linear, undirectional arrow. Rather, even as we adjust to the demands of social and external time in our actions, inner time moves within more multi-layered and multidirectional topologies--folding and unfolding from the moment of full extension, winding and unwinding from fast to slow, conflating past and present into one perception, or uncoiling into the distant future with gliding ease.”