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timepiece note

The title used for the [chronosomatic] theory, The Timepiece of Humanity, comes from the opening line of Velimirs Khlilonikov's (an early 20th century Russian poet) Tables of Destiny: "Suppose I make a timepiece of humanity...."

I first read The Tables of Destiny in 1984, reread the text in 1991, and it was in 1991 that the phrase "timepiece of humanity" struck me as describing precisely my metaphor whereby the human body is used to gauge the entire past, present and future history of humanity.

this page first appeard as page 0180 of schizophrenia + architectures

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