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All the Time in The World
Some things take ages – and that’s a good thing! Take your TIME
Some things take just a little more time. Like the Voyager 1 spacecraft, for example, which was launched in 1977, and is still transmitting signals from the depths of space. Or John Cage’s composition As Slow As Possible, whose first note was struck in 2001 in Halberstadt, and whose complete performance will take 639 years. If there’s one
thing that doesn’t suit our present times, it’s slowness. Thomas Girst has collected 25 highly entertaining stories by artists and academics who have patience and stamina – qualities that many of us lack these days.
He describes the comprehensive dictionary which several generations have worked on, or the fantastic palace built over the space of 33 years by a French postman from the
stones and shells collected on his daily rounds. When we take our time, we can achieve
great things. This book raises objections to the dictates of speed – and suggests that we have to learn to take our time. A celebration of slowness Against our modern-day tempo: 28 stories of astonishing things that took a very long time The ideal present for hectic people.
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Published 2019-03-01 by Carl Hanser Verlag Main content page count: 208 Pages |