"My being is attuned only to one thing," he informed his mother, "the relentless rhythm of time, marching toward my death".
And there was also the tempo, which seemed to be in sync with the rhythm of time, moving slowly, inexorably, allowing what I eventually realized were the emotional shortcomings of the characters — Sandro's frustration, Claudia's self-deprecation — quietly to overwhelm them and push them into another "adventure," and then another and another.
The old Lord & Taylor implies a rhythm of time, of women's time, in particular, a pace not slowed but purposeful and expansive: it takes a morning and lunch, or tea and an afternoon, to make a survey of the place, shopping as a setting out rather than a dropping in.
This type of perception presupposes the capacity to isolate a single instant (one in which a significant experience takes place) and "condense" past, present and future in it, subtracting it from the rhythm of time and thus introducing into the latter a break which, as Giorgio Agamben writes "seems to introduce a split or halt in this eternal flow" (Agamben, 1984, pp. 150-151).
In general, Deleuze will locate the conditions of sensibility in an intensive conception of space and a virtual conception of time, which are necessarily actualized in a plurality of spaces and a complex rhythm of times (for instance, in the non-extended spaces and non-linear times of modern mathematics and physics).
Thus, particularly for nursing and auxiliary staff, ward life was organised on the basis of a structured rhythm of time-sequenced care (washing, toileting), observations, diagnostic processes and treatment, punctuated by meals and visiting times – a pattern that was prone to disruption as a result of crisis events.
Expeditions, by their nature, pull the traveller beyond the normal rhythms of time, and these images are meant to instill in viewers a sense of temporal dislocation.
After a reference to the works of the national hero Simón Bolivar, Chávez started his televised message saying that he had been inspired by words from the Book of Ecclesiastes about the rhythms of time.
In other ways, however, time is circular: 15 September will recur every year, Thursday every week, and 16:00 hours every day (the rhythms of time described by Hawley 1950, 289).
Falling asleep that night, I imagined the walkers still there, all in white, moving slowly to their internal rhythms of time passing and finally signaled by the external clock (as ultimately we all will be), telling them that it was time to go.
"But in a rowing boat, if one person decides, 'Right, I'm gonna really go for it,' and goes on their own rhythm out of time with the rest of the group, the boat will stop dead in the water, and you'll lose the race.
