This book is a journal of certain experiences...rebuilt out of memory. As we age, the mystery of Time more and more dominates the mind...the mind busies itself with what Henry James has called "the irresistible reconstruction...of irrevocable presences and aspects...
...I have no new theory of Time to propound, but I would declare my belief that it preserves and quickens rather than destroys. An experience...is quickly overlaid by others...But it is overlaid, not lost. Time hurries it from us, but also keeps it in store, and it can later be recaptured and amplified by memory...
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I have included one or two passages from a little book, These for Remembrance, of which a few copies were printed privately in 1919.
J.B.
From the author's introduction to Pilgrim's Way.
I was especially fascinated by the notion of hurried journeys...and since the theme is common to Homer and the penny reciter it must appeal to a very ancient instinct in human nature.
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We live our lives under the twin categories of time and space...
From An Ivory Tower and It's Prospect in the same book (194)
Time is the loftiest subject of contemplation by man for Time transcends human life. To attain the prospect for contemplation of Time the pilgrim must transcend the physical. Ernest Hemingway did that.
...I have no new theory of Time to propound, but I would declare my belief that it preserves and quickens rather than destroys. An experience...is quickly overlaid by others...But it is overlaid, not lost. Time hurries it from us, but also keeps it in store, and it can later be recaptured and amplified by memory...
...
I have included one or two passages from a little book, These for Remembrance, of which a few copies were printed privately in 1919.
J.B.
From the author's introduction to Pilgrim's Way.
I was especially fascinated by the notion of hurried journeys...and since the theme is common to Homer and the penny reciter it must appeal to a very ancient instinct in human nature.
...
We live our lives under the twin categories of time and space...
From An Ivory Tower and It's Prospect in the same book (194)
Time is the loftiest subject of contemplation by man for Time transcends human life. To attain the prospect for contemplation of Time the pilgrim must transcend the physical. Ernest Hemingway did that.
