Comparison of statements made at different periods frequently enable us to give maximal and minimal dates to the appearance of a cultural element or to assign the time limits to a movement of population.
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At a minimum, in explaining evolutionary pathways through time, the constraints imposed by history rise to equal prominence with the immediate advantages of adaptation.
I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject. By a very careful choice of words you can evoke an era, completely throw the poem into a different time scale.
You can see over time whether people are prepared to differ or not.
Initial work is on period research where the historical markers are absolutely non-negotiable. Once that is established, a writer can take creative liberties in terms of chronology to suit the story.
We shall seek first to tell the truth rather than to study the subtle art of adjusting it to the circumstances of time and person.
I am strongly of the opinion that chronology is very important. The great arc of time is what children are wired for.
Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
Sometimes a time dictates what a film will be. Sometimes a film dictates what the time will be.
For each human being, time is a necessary resource. It can neither be ignored nor changed.
Time is found in the calibration of the individual to the timing of a collective endeavour, the social grace that less clock-bound societies must practise.