#time thoughts

However! I wrote something related a while ago, in response to a video analysis of M&D. Gavin Young Philosophy (on YT) discusses the theme of “stolen time”, especially looking at Mason’s experience with the changing of the calendar in 1752. The missing eleven days had always intrigued me, and Young covered it quite well. I watched that section (~1:22:03) just before taking a flight from the US to Germany, and what a fantastic collection of thoughts that inspired! I was reimagining the time zone change as a theft of 6 hours (compared with the 11 days)…thinking about how my life would be rebalanced, according to our rather arbitrary measurements of time, upon my return, while Mason’s never could be. About how, if I allowed myself to think beyond my familiarity with “linear” time, I could imagine that the 6 hours I lost and the 6 hours I’d gain on the way back were one and the same. That those six hours become some kind of pocket reality, where one might find only shades of humanity and creatures of the night. Those lost violently obscured histories? That’s where they live.

And is this an exploration in fiction, sure, but I think what I ended up with, as my plane landed, was a feeling that we stand to recover more of these histories if those of us in the Western school of thought learn to think outside the familiar.

Not really — we experience years in all areas of life, a consistent repetition of memories and dreams.

But time is continuous!

Yet doesn't it loop back on itself and eddy in the shallows? The present always informs the past.