ABOUT TIME
About Time takes the position that all of human time is now,
though some aspects of now are more distant than others, temporally speaking.
While some files may be very far away, they are available with a click.
Cro de Granville will speak for himself as often as he can. It is in his nature to do so.
As for Mouth, his story comes from the deep unfolding time.
Because of this one may note certain anachronisms in his world.
These are not errors but translations from his Archaic language into contemporary idiom.
All time is equal. History is merely one possible ordering of event for the convenience of temporally unidirectional beings.
This introduction helps us make up our minds for the text we are about to start reading, somehow explaining how time affects the unfolding of the story. The main idea that drives the temporal structure of the story is that time is actually non-linear, being time linearity only a product of human's limited capability of perception. What this means in terms of the understanding of the text is that although linearly some aspects [...] are more distant than others [...] they are available with a click. That is, the text allows us to read almost everything in any order we want, not necessarily in a chronological order. In fact inside most sections we are granted the possibility of accessing other sections that are apparently disconnected, but once put together they all fit together to form the whole picture. And if we choose to follow the story in a linear way we are also permitted to do so. Therefore the possibilities are numerous. The only limitarion is the passing from one PART to another. Divided in three chronologically ordered parts, the text does not allow us to read the next part until we have finished reading the previous one. This was probably set up this way in order to help us temporally unidirectional beings have a sense of certain linearity and improve our understanding of the events that occur in the text.
Academic year 2008/2009
© About Time (Rob Swigart/Wordcircuits)
© a.r.e.a./Dr.Vicente Forés López
© Víctor Ortuño Domínguez
vicordo@alumni.uv.es
Universitat de València Press