What more could be said about the relationship between contemporary existence and literature?
It's all embedded, the hours and minutes, words and numbers
everywhere, he said, train stations, bus routes, taxi meters, surveillance
cameras. It's all about time, dimwit time, inferior time, people checking
watches and other devices, other reminders. This is time draining out of our
lives. Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There's
an endless counting down, he said. When you strip away all the surfaces, when
you see into it, what's left is terror. This is the thing that literature was
meant to cure. The epic poem, the bedtime story.
-- Point Omega
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