Darker than, I don't know, in chronological order, the passage of the Indian Removal Act, the Battle of Gettysburg, the Dred Scott Decision, the 1918 flu epidemic, the Stock market crash, Pearl Harbor, the assassinations of Martin Luther King or JFK or Robert Kennedy,the Kent State shootings, the Challenger explosion, the Oklahoma City bombings, among others.
Miss Sullivan and I read the disconnected passages, put them into chronological order, and counted the words to be sure the articles should be the right length.
Gripping the ropes that bind luggage to this vehicle, you witness a passage of time that outstrips its chronological equivalent.
As he writes in his novel: "You witness a passage of time that outstrips its chronological equivalent.
He's magnificently fraudulent and full of uses; he swoops in to do exposition, pans away to turn prophetic or play sociologist ("You witness a passage of time that outstrips its chronological equivalent.
For Klee, loose continuity explained a curious facet of our lives – elucidating those vague patterns, random encounters and tangential connections that are only revealed in hindsight after a long passage of time – a kind of chronological version of six degrees of separation, I suppose.
Rashi held that the passages are placed according to the chronological order as they appear in the Torah: Kadesh Li, Ve-haya Ki Yeviehcha, Shema, Ve-haya Im Shemoa, while according to Rabbeinu Tam, the last two passages are switched around.
"We're confusing a calendar, which is a set of rules put in place for the fixing of chronological events of a celebratory nature, with the actual passage of time".
The city in question is Bombay, whose ambition is visualised, over the book's chronological span of several years in the 1980s, in passages that observe new building on land reclaimed from the sea, or luxury apartment blocks sprouting incongruously in the middle of treeless wastelands.
David's personal collection provides the framework for this book - a sequence of fragmented, non-chronological chapters, ranging through several generations of the Carter family, each passage inspired by a souvenir or relic from the annals of family life.
