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Paradox and Time
14
Time and Paradox
in
The Dispossessed
Time =
?
Time is slow & fast
Is time a straight line?
A B C D
Wake, eat b-fast, drive, class
Sequence explains how things end.
What happens to time when you are bored?
In an emergency?
Drugged at the dentist? (15)
Asleep?
Having Sex? (51)
What is Time?
Time = ?
What was your first experience with a social network?
- Facebook?
- MySpace?
The internet allows us to
"time travel" (343)
Is time just an endless circle?
(223) Cycles explain how things
endure, go on
1) Planets spinning around a sun
2) Motion of atoms
3) Hands on a clock
We are Time?
Paradox
Idea or statement that contradicts itself, yet may be true.
(223)
Time is both the arrow and the circle.
(9) "There was no time. He was time: he only. He was the river, the arrow, the stone...there was a clock on the wall...meaningless."
Does time exist without us?
""True Journey is Return""
The novel ends where it begins.
As readers we read chapter by chapter (arrow) and end at the start (circle).
We experience subjective time.
through chapters that aren't "in order"
Pose a Question
So What?
1) Take a couple of minutes to think of a time related question.
2) Discuss with someone near you.
3) Share with class.
Ethics, Right and Wrong? (225)
Technology of Time: (344) Ansible
Instant communication =
Power
Example:
Cellphone, YouTube