Fast Time and Slow Time in Fiction

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I've been reading The Art of Time in Fiction: As Long as It Takes by Joan Silber for a while now. It's a small book, and easy to read, but it packs in a lot of concepts, and I don't want to rush my reading of it both for that reason and because I'm enjoying it so much. There's a mix of lofty concepts of time and story with practical writing tips.

In fiction, things might happen at a "normal pace," depicted in scenes. Or events might be summarized, so in effect something that would...