To me, these hills of Wester Ross and Sutherland are not "ordinary" mountains but otherworldly artefacts from strange temporal dimensions.
Vinny has the ability to exist in three distinct temporal dimensions, which kind of gives him an edge.
Moreover, not enough attention is accorded to its temporal dimensions: it can be both a short-term characteristic and a long-term guiding belief.
The philosophy of time is one of Robinson's major themes as a writer; and this novel's meditations on the way our consciousness of time is complexly entangled in three temporal dimensions - the rapidly inexorable advance of picoseconds, the glacially slow pulse of eternity, and the backward flow of memory - is nothing short of brilliant.
"When I am actually pacing the floor, when the store is finally closed," he said, "I would reflect on the fact that I am walking the very physical space that 100 years ago people also have walked and somehow you feel that spatial and temporal dimensions have been contracted in a moment".
The March issue of Population and Development Review includes a full explanation via "Growing Diversity Among America's Children and Youth: Spatial and Temporal Dimensions," written by Kenneth Johnson of the University of New Hampshire and Daniel Lichter of Cornell University.
Preferences have at least three relevant temporal dimensions.
Agronomic systems have pronounced spatial and temporal dimensions.
We find ourselves again launched on what looks to be an infinite regress of temporal dimensions.
It is also necessary to consider the temporal dimensions of community.
We introduce a framework for the characterization of groups along geographical and temporal dimensions.
