M & D Time pp194--195

[Mark Kohut]

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. ~Henry David
Thoreau, "Economy," Walden, 1854

p.194
"purely,as who might say, dangerously, was Time that must be denied
its freedom to elapse"...

There is a real-life philosopher who appears in Against the Day, one
McTaggart, famously known for the fullest
arguments made that Time does not exist.....check out one of the
arguments....they hinge on
the question of how Time's passing can be measured since, being time,
it cannot be measured
by Time....
As above, "Time denied its freedom to elapse."

p. 195 "People who liv'd in quite another relation to Time.....The
Verbs of their language no more possessing tenses, than their nouns
Case-Endings".....

In his major book, Marshall McLuhan alludes to (from anthropologists'
studies) and talks of pre-industrial communities that live in such a
situation..in eternity, so to speak....
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