A Sideways Look at TimeA brilliant and poetic exploration of the way that we experience time in our everyday lives. Why does time seem so short? How does women's time differ from men's? Why does time seem to move slowly in the countryside and quickly in cities? How do different cultures around the world see time? In A Sideways Look at Time, Jay Griffiths takes readers on an extraordinary tour of time as we have never seen it before. With this dazzling and defiant work, Griffiths introduces us to dimensions of time that are largely forgotten in our modern lives. She presents an infectious argument for other, more magical times, the diverse cycles of nature, of folktale or carnival, when time is unlimited and on our side. This is a book for those who suspect that there's more to time than clocks. Irresistible and provocative, A Sideways Look at Time could change the way we view time-forever. |
Contents
PIPS AND OCEANS AND THE NOW | 1 |
FFWD THE TROUSERARROW OF SPEED | 37 |
MYTHICAL LIZARDS BACCHUSS BINS AND MINING THE PAST | 58 |
BOTTOMS UP MISCHIEF NIGHTS AND MILLENNIUM DAYS | 98 |
WREAKING GOOD HAVOCA TIME OF WOMEN | 134 |
WET ROUND TIME AND DRY LINEAR TIME | 155 |
THE POWER AND THE GLORY | 178 |
LIFES TOO SHOR | 208 |
PROGRESS IS A FOURLETTER WORD | 233 |
A TEFLON TOMORROW | 258 |
NATOURE | 294 |
TOOTLE PIP | 319 |
WILD TIME | 335 |
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Aboriginal Aboriginal Australians American ancient Arakmbut Beltane Britain calendar called carnival century chaos theory child Christianity clock clock-time cloning Cryonics cultures cycles cyclic dance dead death describes dissipative structures Dreamtime E.P. Thompson earth enclosures eternity fast female fenced festival folktales future genetic genetic engineering Gisborne global Hopi human idea Indian indigenous industry land language linear live male Maori means menstruation Metaman millennium mind minutes Mircea Eliade modern modernity's month moon myth mythic Native American nature nature's night nuclear pagan past Paul Virilio play political present Press progress rhythm ritual river road says seasons sense sexual shaman SIDEWAYS LOOK slow social society space speed story symbol Taku tell things thought time's tion Tlingit tradition trees U'wa Vandana Shiva watch West Western wild wilderness woman women word writes wrote Yanesha