"Also, there was a time when time was not succession and transition,
but rather the perpetual source of a fixed present in which all
times, past and future, were contained. When man was exiled from
that eternity in which all times were one, he entered chronometric
time and became a prisoner of the clock and the calendar. As soon as
time was divided up into yesterday, today and tomorrow, into hours,
minutes and seconds, man ceased to be one with time, ceased to
coincide with the flow of reality;. When one says, "at this moment,"
the moment has already passed -- which is continuous present -- and
turn all the presences in which reality manifests itself, as Bergson
said, into phantasms.
If we consider the nature of these two opposing ideas, it becomes
clear that chronometric time is a homogeneous succession lacking all
particularity. It is always the same, always indifferent to pleasure
or pain. Mythological time, on the other hand, is impregnated with
all the particulars of our lives: it is as long as eternity or short
as a breath, ominous or propitious, fecund or sterile. This idea
allows for the existence of a number of varying times. Life and time
coalesce to form a single whole, an indivisible unity..."
(Paz, Octavio, 'The Labyrinth of Solitude')
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DEFINITION of Marsha, I, me, self, myself, & etc.: Ever-changing
collection of overlapping, interrelated, inorganic, biological,
social and intellectual, static patterns of value.
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