Kaye and Time
The paradox of time versus experience. Documented or recorded time is meant to be read and observed as opposed to lived. Studied even, recorded time is a history with its own chronology. There are events which began, occurred, and ended. This is the structure of time we picture: a timeline. A perfectly logical, simple, yet factual tool to order existence. However, this presents a much different reality of time than witnessed in real life. To that end, Date and Time goes to depict time and its passing in a way that more so mirrors, or attempts to, the human experience. Time’s paradox has to do with experience. As a young man, I am at the beginning of my life, or so one would think. But all I experience right now, is the now, not the beginning – the middle. What I have experienced has already ended, and what is coming, is of course, just beginning or about to happen. This lifelike, experiential transition and relationship with time is how Kaye structures his book. He begins w