Rachel’s Reviews > Nabokov's ADA: The Place of Consciousness > Status Update

"Reviewing those last steps of the immediate Past involves less physical time than was needed for the clock's mechanism to exhaust its strokes, and it is this mysterious "less" which is a special characteristic of the still-fresh Past into which the Present slipped during that instant inspection of shadow sounds. The "less indicates that the Past is in no need of clocks ..." -Ada pgs 547-549

"Time without consciousness -- lower animal world; time with consciousness -- man; consciousness without time -- some still higher state"