Humor, by its nature, provides instant distance, balance and perspective, if even for a moment.
George Arnald's painting in Greenwich of the same instant, but with a different perspective, uses the same device.
That one's orderly world can spin wildly off its axis in an instant provided a dose of perspective that made a missed fairway or wayward putt infinitely easier for Snedeker to swallow.
In perspective, using an instant messaging service (such as Skype or MSN messenger) is free, provided that you have connection to the internet of course.
That, of course, is the problem with instant histories: an absence of historical perspective.
"From my perspective, it's an instant replay of the Microsoft case," Mr. Reback said in a recent interview, though he would not comment for this article.
While from the Shingon esoteric perspective, this attainment is instant, from another perspective, viewed in light of all other (i.e., exoteric) doctrines, the attainment is gradual and relative.
An alternative perspective is to consider an instant-based model of time and associate with every instant in it a "snapshot" of the model at that time instant.
Of course the dangers of instant fame without support skills and the perspective of education are very real.
