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It’s time to do away with time. We need to overthrow the unbending autocracy of the clock, to cast off the chains of those monolithic, Stalinesque metrics intended to demarcate the revolution of the Earth. Sixty seconds to the minute, sixty minutes to the hour, twenty-four hours to the day, forever and ever, unending and unimaginative, a monotonous grey eternity defined by the tyrannical ticking of a clock.
We need new measurements. How long have I been waiting? Not quite long enough to drink a Coke. How long will I be away? Until the apples ripen and fall. When will I stop loving you? When the paint fades completely away on the shadow-side of a brick building.
The clock, the calendar…they are myths, stories we tell ourselves to try to impose order on our lives. The moving shadow doesn’t recognize a minute or an hour, there is no peal of thunder or flash of lightning to announce the end of one year and the beginning of another.
How long have I been waiting? How long will I be away? When will I stop loving you? The answers will never be found in the clock.
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