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Can We Escape from Time? | by John Lanchester | The New York Review of Books

The new idea, time travel, is appealing because we know time better than we used to. We know, much better than our ancestors, the exact lineaments of what Kipling called the unforgiving minute. Our time is more universal and more precise than ever, and were more than ever aware of the fact; its no wonder that we dream so much and think so fervently of ways in which time might be bent, stretched, reversed, made less...