March 14, 2009

• Annals of Scholarship:

  Flowers for Barry

  

  On Time (in Mathematics and Literature) “… I want to spend these twenty minutes savoring, and working up, the real complexity of the metaphorical relationship of time and distance– to defamiliarize it for us. And then I will give a few examples of how imaginative literature makes use of the inherent strangeness in this relationship: Time ↔ Distance. And finally I will offer my opinion (which I think must be everyone’s opinion) about why we derive significant– but not total– comfort from this equation.” – Barry Mazur, March 8, 2009, draft (pdf) of talk for conference on comparative literature*

  Another version of
  Mazur’s metaphor
   Time ↔ Distance:

  

  – Steven H. Cullinane,
  October 8, 2003

  For some context in
  comparative literature,
  see Time Fold
  (Oct. 10, 2003)
  and A Hanukkah Tale
  (Dec. 22, 2008).

  Related material:
  Rat Psychology
  yesterday.

  * American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) annual meeting, March 26-29, 2009, at Harvard. Mazur’s talk is scheduled for March 28.

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