Both cities are magnificent constructions, each occupying a timeless space in the American imagination.
The circus, here, represents the timeless space of the imagination that is a touchstone of the characters' humanity.
Thus distilled, the Tristan story loses its narrative drive and takes up residence in a timeless space that nevertheless suggests the possibility of magic.
Mr. Birtwistle's ingenious and engrossing score creates spans of astringent harmony and sputtering melodic riffs, suspended in a rhythmically rigorous yet somehow timeless space.
Each of them, after all, contains not just an instructive picture but a little world, sealed off unto itself, and the idea of entering, not to say violating, the timeless space of gorillas or wolves or mountain lions is intoxicating.
It's everything a pub should be: a fabric of mercy, a haven from the preoccupations of post-industrial life, a timeless space more connected with the fields and springs, the repeating cycle of generations, than with the particular troubles of our own times.
We were in a wordless, timeless space.
The me who hangs out in that timeless space where everything feels sparkly, uncomplicated, and clear.
Howe's poems may read as though whispered into the mouth of a well, but it is a deep and timeless space for all that, and one well worth exploring and, in time, fully inhabiting.
