Delillo - Time Flashcards
“Time seems to pass…”
“Time seems to pass. The world happens, unrolling into moments, and you stop to glance at a spider pressed to its web”
“The plan…”
“The plan was to organise time until I could live again”
- trying to constrain and control time since death Ray’s death distorted her reality
“Past, present and future…”
“Past, present and future are not amnesties of language. Time… It passes through you, making and shaping”
“We’re out of the city…”
“We’re out of the city. Were off the calendar. Friday shouldnt have an identity here. Who wants coffee?”
“She was alert…”
“She was alert to the clarity of the moment but knew it was already ending”
“A normal morning…”
“A normal morning going crazy in ways so humanely routine”
“All the cars including yours seem to flow in dissociated motion…”
“All the cars including yours seem to flow in dissociated motion, giving the impression of or presenting the appearance of, and the highway runs in a white rum”
Keep repeating until you get it right
“She chopped firewood…”
“She chopped firewood. She set aside time for the webcam…”
Controlling time has become one of her daily tasks, next to chopping firewood
