Walter Benjamin

The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.

First line of Walter Banjamin's Fifth Theses on the Philosophy of History

Giorgio Agamben and Puech

In contrast with the Hellenic world, for the Christian the world is created within time and must end with time. At one end, the account of Genesis, at the other, the eschatological perspective of the Apocalypse. . .This uniquely fashioned universe which began, which endures and which end within time, is a finite world enclosed by the two edges of history. Its duration comprises neither the eternal nor the infinite, and the events which unfold within it will never be repeated.

Puech quoted by Giorgio Agamben in Critique of the Instant and the Continiuum.
Download full essay here.

BBC4 about Russian Art

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00phtcz

"The clock ticked. The moving instant which, according to Sir Isaac Newton, separates the infinite past from the infinite future advanced inexorably through the dimension of time. Or, if Aristotle was right, a little more of the possible was every instant made real; the present stood still; the present stood still and drew into itself the future, as a man might suck forever at an unending piece of macaroni."

Aldous Huxley 'Point counter point'

thanks to Ari

Fischli & Weiss

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfEkPgfA7wo

Лагуна (Lagoon)

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VI

Рождество без снега, шаров и ели

у моря, стесненного картой в теле;

створку молююска пустив ко дну,

пряча лицо, но спиной пленяя,

Время выходит из волн, меняя

стрелку на башне - ее одну.

...

by Joseph Brodsky

from A Part of Speech

senses

'Time can be neither seen or felt, neither heard nor tasted nor smelt. How can something be measured if it’s not perceptible to the senses.'

Time: an Essay

by Norbet Elias