I’m increasingly convinced the ancients did not think of, or experience, time the way we do, as a kind of one-way street spatial dimension. It was a flux with a material quality. Like a river flowing through you. Or like weather.
Conversation
Replying to
For a pre-industrialized look, Schivelbusch's industrialization of time and space.
jstor.org/stable/10.1525
2
1
Here is his highly cited description of space / time on his first railway journey...
youtu.be/GYAk5jCTQ3s
1
Replying to
actually Victor Hugo uttered that... was cited by Schivelbusch...
1

