Seminar on Time ~ If we Have Any.

1. Define time. This may take some time…

2. List factors that effect your perception of time.

3. Would you call time liberating or imprisoning? Explain.

4. What are the most compelling reasons for marking time?

5. How is time measured? What instruments, signs, constructs, paradigms, fixed heavenly bodies, or institutions are used or relied upon?

6. Describe the changes that would occur in your lives if time were compressed, or stretched out, or stopped. Which would you prefer, and why?

7. Why do writers and artists distort time?

8. In the work we have just read, how does the writer manipulate time?

9. How do the central characters respond or react to the alteration or distortion of their time?

10. Ponder this carefully: how would the work’s theme have been less obvious if time had been a reliable, predictable element in his/her/their lives?