We live in a world in which digital clocks are fitted for free on our phones, computers and domestic devices. Garfield’s Timekeepers has two simple intentions, he tells us: “To tell some illuminating stories and to ask whether we have all gone completely nuts”. You eat to the clock, you drink to the clock, you go to bed to the clock… You do that for 40 years of your life, you retire, what do they fucking give you? A clock!” This point was made even more forcibly by comedian Dave Allen, who triggered hundreds of complaint calls with this television diatribe about time. “It leaves us in no doubt about time’s unassailable presence in our lives,” states Garfield. (“Year” and “day” are also in the top five, further underlining our fetish for keeping to schedules.) Similarly, phrases like “last time”, “reading time” and “quality time” pepper our speech. Indeed, we have become so obsessed with keeping to deadlines, the word “time” is now the most commonly used noun in the English language according to the Oxford English Dictionary. Great works seem timeless but are constrained tightly by our chronological capacities
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