"...no: it must be divided by a thick wall of dark nights from all return of light and sunshine, from the latter weeks of october to christmas eve, therefore, happiness is in season." thomas de quincey______tom had his own reasons for desiring long nights, however he is talking abour "event time" not "clock time" and it is the latter i am on about...(plus we could spend no small amount of time bogged down in the "whys" of tom's desire )...it is the artifical and abstract nature of the command and control mechanism of clock time that are at issue here...in terms of calenders, year and months might be more readily reconciled to event time...weeks, days, hours, minutes all function as behavioral regulators seeking to control events ( and people ) as opposed to the "it takes as long as it takes" viewpoint of event time...from chuirch hierarchies mandating specific prayers at specific times to the factory whistle, clock time tells you what to do and when...time zones are surely an artifical construct designed to aid in co-ordinating control...you have to know when the 12:01 express that originated at 12:01 in an other time zone is arriving...so time panders to the railroads...and, by extension, to capital...the international date line is simply time zones writ large and one wonders if its placement couldn't be as arbitrary as the time difference three feet in on each side of a line marking the beginning/end of a time zone...real time has little connection to clock time...time contracts with focused interest and expands with boredom...days can seem to drag on for eternities yet in agregate they fly by,...does sleep register time or are we outside it when asleep...when i of necessity set an alarm there are times when it wakes me, however i am usually awake before it goes off...internal colock or simply regular habits of sleep? i would opt for sleep faling under the rubric of event time...it takes as long as it takes and it can be readily disrupted...so why all this thought about the arbitrariness of clock time? well...always an interesting subject...however overnight tonight the hegemons are giving me back the hour the miserable chamber fo commerce stole last march...no they did not invent it...they certainly jumped on the bandwagon however...along with some of the clowns ( listening rubio? ) in whoretown who wanted to make daylight savings time permanent this year...they tried that with the permanent daylight savings time act of 1974 which was repealed relatively quickly when daylight became naturally shorter in the winter and the dark was disruptive...the whores have no feel for natural rhythms...or anything else natrual for that matter...so i get my hour back...however it is more like twenty minutes since i only get it back for a third of the year...let the natural rhythms begin.
