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Showing posts with label but . . ." Thoughts. Show all posts

Friday, March 27, 2009

"It's Your Time" another "Call me crazy, but . . ." Thought

Did you ever notice that the sentence "It was his time" or "It's your time" is about time that you never have because it is the instant of a person's (or your own in a film like The Seventh Seal) death?  So if given your time, you always want to give it back, as in, "No, it's not my time yet.  Come back later."  Of course, you can have the time of your life, but that's not a lifetime of time, it's your life but not your time.  So life and time remain forever separated, as if your lifetime excluded your time.  I think this is another case of Death being a practical joker:  "Here, have your time.  Ha ha, time's up!"  Your time does not belong to you; it's like a debt you owe that may be called in at any moment.

Updating "Call me crazy, but . . ." Thought

Why is that you can update but not downdate?  Why can't you nowdate? Or latedate? Or belateddate?  Up and down and front and back go together, but not in the case of updating.  You can, of course, go up a hill and back down it, or go back and forth, but in those cases you are always going and returning to the same two  places.  Backdating is not apposite updating the way back and forth are but the opposite of updating:  to backdate is to lie, falsify, to forge a date that didn't exist.  To update, by contrast, is to revise and give the most correct, accurate account.  But is updating really totally opposed to forgery?   If you are always saving by erasing earlier versions (like Freud's mystic writing pad), is the saved version not also a forgery of sorts, a cover up?