Stretching back evenly
From Art De Vany:A great insight in this quote from E.M. Forster that I found in a fine paper by Jon Kleinberg titled “Bursty and Hierarchical Structure in Streams.”
…there seems something else in life besides time, something which may conveniently be called ‘value’, something which is measured not by minutes or hours but by intensity, so that when we look at our past it does not stretch back evenly but piles up into a few notable pinnacles, and when we look at the future it seems sometimes a wall, sometimes a cloud, sometimes a sun, but never a chronological chart.
E.M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel (1927).
Posted at 2005-11-06 02:38:49 by Richard • Link to Stretching back ev…
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