If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man's ...life would only serve to make a chronological table--a fool's notion of history.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Human development is a form of chronological unfairness, since late-comers are able to profit by the labors of their predecessors ...without paying the same price.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Newspapers had a different perceptual impact on the reader than the printed book. Unlike the linear development of a plot or an ar...gument in the book, the concurrent reporting of news from different parts of the world made newspapers a mosaic of unrelated events. Newspapers contracted time to the instantaneous and the sensational, expanded space to include anything from everywhere. The present became much more diverse and complex, no longer containable within a single chronological framework. And the reader had to provide the connection between the different news items.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Have you noticed when reading War and Peace the difficulties Tolstoy experienced in forcing morally wounded Bolkonsky to come into... geographical and chronological contact with Natasha? It is very painful to watch the way the poor fellow is dragged and pushed and shoved in order to achieve this happy reunion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted ...on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »