Timekeepers How the World Became Obsessed with Time
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Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana. The
Beatles learn to be brilliant in an hour and a half. An Englishman
arrives back from Calcutta but refuses to adjust his watch.
Beethoven has his symphonic wishes ignored. A US Senator begins a
speech that will last for 25 hours. The horrors of war are frozen
at the click of a camera. A woman designs a ten-hour clock and
reinvents the calendar. Roger Bannister lives out the same four
minutes over a lifetime. And a prince attempts to stop time in its
tracks. Timekeepers is a book about our obsession with time and our
desire to measure it, control it, sell it, film it, perform it,
immortalise it and make it meaningful. It has two simple
intentions: to tell some illuminating stories, and to ask whether
we have all gone completely nuts.
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Simon Garfield ,
Canongate Books
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Simon Garfield,
Canongate Books
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