Tempus What's It?
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“Time passes. Listen. Time passes. Come closer now. Only you can hear the houses sleeping in the streets in the slow deep salt and silent black, bandaged night.” I was talking earlier on, of a reference made in an old episode of the TV series "Lovejoy", to the famous 15th Century Prague Astronomical clock, and the prevailing superstition - and fear - of that period, that clocks actually create time itself. The thing is that up until the era of mechanical timekeeping - and you could go a good bit further back in history to pseudo-mechanical methods, I guess - we simply regulated our daily activities in a purely analogue and instinctual sense: daylight and the season's turn being the only means by which one was aware of 'time'; all tied to itself and our being, and not abstracted to the 'measured' time of the clock. Intuitively, on a human scale, the only correct interpretation of time, if such exists, is the human, existential one: the fact that human i