As a proud, but inveterate, INTJ — I have a philosophy of life that few people understand: “Be Blunt and Cruel, it Saves Time!” I never use that philosophy with others without permission. That philosophy is fully how I prefer to be treated, but few people are willing to abide the terms of what they perceive to be “rough language.”
Thomas had a colossal problem, which was that he had no idea why he was always running out of time to do all of the important things that he wanted to do in life.
Continue reading → Chasing Down Time: Ten Sentence Story #115
Do people care about being on time anymore? It seems that as each day passes, our adherence to the hands on a clock grows more weary. Transportation timetables appear to be more suggestion that requirement. Medical appointments can vary up to 45 minutes and still be considered “on time.” Meeting friends is now set in a “time frame” instead of an exact time that translates to: “I’ll show up if I feel like it and if I’m available.”
If you had to repeatedly do something painful and unfortunate seven times — how would you want to meter that experience?
The green eye glows no more;
death in the dimming.
Sometimes, you have to cheat a bit to get a theory to conform to reality as we currently understand it. We love to think of time travel and of warping space — and there are Big Thinkers who are bringing us closer to that total destiny today.
One thing amateur actors lack is technique. Sometimes trying to embed a foreign technique into a new actor can be a challenge. One of the most important techniques any actor must have is the innate ability to control time and space. A good actor can speed up time or slow time to a crawl. Speeding up is easy; slowing down is hard.
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