Summary of Simon Garfield's Timekeepers

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#1 When I was cycling with my son, we were hit by a car. It was just as people had said: time seemed to slow down. I can remember the fall not exactly in slow motion, but extended, each tiny event surrounding the accident logged as if it might be my last.

#2 The brain will try to process the event as quickly as possible, because accidents are frightening and significant events. But our brains will also create more vivid memories of them, which will make them seem like they took longer than they did.

#3 I was back in a cradle where time was no longer my own. I thought about how everything that passed for time in this setting was self-imposed and self- ordained, and I wondered how such an alliance had come about.

#4 The most famous line in Seneca’s essay comes right at the start, a reminder of a famous saying by the Greek physician Hippocrates: Life is short, art is long. The exact meaning of this is still open to interpretation, but Seneca’s employment of the phrase confirms that the nature of time was a topic that thinkers in Ancient Greece and Rome found extremely engaging.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jun 4, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822530089

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Insights on Simon Garfield's Timekeepers

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

When I was cycling with my son, we were hit by a car. It was just as people had said: time seemed to slow down. I can remember the fall not exactly in slow motion, but extended, each tiny event surrounding the accident logged as if it might be my last.

#2

The brain will try to process the event as quickly as possible, because accidents are frightening and significant events. But our brains will also create more vivid memories of them, which will make them seem like they took longer than they did.

#3

I was back in a cradle where time was no longer my own. I thought about how everything that passed for time in this setting was self-imposed and self- ordained, and I wondered how such an alliance had come about.

#4

The most famous line in Seneca’s essay comes right at the start, a reminder of a famous saying by the Greek physician Hippocrates: Life is short, art is long. The exact meaning of this is still open to interpretation, but Seneca’s employment of the phrase confirms that the nature of time was a topic that thinkers in Ancient Greece and Rome found extremely engaging.

#5

I wanted to get back 90 percent of my flexibility and pronation within eight weeks if I worked hard at the physiotherapy. I watched a lot of television and got extremely angry, and read a lot on my Kindle.

#6

I thought about the man who had turned me on to books and words, John Couper. He had delivered a speech about time at a school assembly, and had read from a list that included Time. You can spend it, make it, lose it, save it, squander it, slow it down, speed it up, beat it, keep it, master it, spare it, kill it.

#7

I spent a lot