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 with the End, which has already happened. This is a logical platform to launch into the Beginning; from what has ended is where we can only seek to start something new. What is just beginning has also just started, and we know it as such. It is an event we can fathom. It is an event we continue to experience, which helps us transition, and Kaye, into the most volatile and fluid stage of time, which is the Middle. 


    The Middle is now. It is happening now and in constant transition. It has a beginning, but not yet an ending. Kaye ends his book with the Middle, as it mimics more closely life itself. For Kaye, the Middle is always the most current stage of experience. 

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