In England, when we’re done with our Christmas dinner, my Uncle will turn to the rest of us and say ‘shall we sit soft?’ which means shall we move somewhere softer.
Today we shall sit soft in The Nows.
The Now Clock by Halle Bateman
It is hard to define the present because now it’s gone, now it’s gone, now it’s gone.
But what if today, as we walk into our holiday break, we dwelled a little more in what Julius Thomas Frazer called:
Banana Now Time
The temporal reality of nonhuman life is limited almost entirely to the present. In the worlds of the most advanced species there are sight extensions of that present to the immediate future and past. Chimps, for instance, can play hide and seek. But even for apes, time is always “banana now.” It is never “banana for my grandchildren yet to be born” or “banana last month.”
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