 The clock's tick-tock I take to be a model of what we call a plot, an organization that humanizes time by giving it form; and the interval between tock and tick represents purely successive, disorganized time of the sort that we need to humanize.  Discourse and Identity - Pagina 34geredigeerd door - 2006 - 462 pagina’sGedeeltelijke weergave - Over dit boek
 | Don M. Wardlaw - 1983 - 180 pagina’s
...different is a special kind of middle. We can perceive a duration only when it is organized. . . . The clock's tick-tock I take to be a model of what...organization that humanizes time by giving it form. 1 because it is organized time. The raw, undisciplined substance of time is shaped by the brackets... | |
 | Stuart Sherman - 1996 - 352 pagina’s
...confer organization and form on temporal structure. The interval between . . . tick and tock is ... charged with significant duration. The clock's tick-tock...represents purely successive, disorganized time of the sort that we need to humanize. . . . Tick is a humble genesis, tock a feeble apocalypse. . . . (Kermode... | |
 | William Frank Monroe - 1998 - 260 pagina’s
...Literature and the Arts, ed. Irving Howe (New York: Horizon, 1967), p. 14. 14. "The clock's tick-lock I take to be a model of what we call a plot, an organization...humanizes time by giving it form; and the interval between tick and tock represents purely successive, disorganized time of the sort we need to humanize." Frank... | |
 | Frank Kermode - 2000 - 219 pagina’s
...end to confer organization and form on the temporal structure. The interval between the two sounds, between tick and tock is now charged with significant...represents purely successive, disorganized time of the sort that we need to humanize. Later I shall be asking whether, when tick-tock seems altogether too easily... | |
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