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"I
have not found out why humans think of time as a line going from
backwards, forwards, whilst it may move in all directions like everything
else" (Ferruccio Busoni) |
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The one thing all people who have grown up in Western society have in common, apart from a deep dislike of flared trousers, is consciousness of mortality, of time slipping away. As with many other feature of human existence examined by sociology, what at first sight appears to be a fundamental fact of human existence is on reflection a historically and culturally specific human construct. Human beings have not always thought of time in this way, neither do they all.
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| These pages were originally written by: | Angus Bancroft and Sioned Rogers |
| Redesigned and updated by: | Pierre Stapley - 2010 |