01:358:205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: The Age Of Miracles
27 Nov 2018
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Narrator alive in the end - know because the whole story is a recollection. Clock ticking down, but hours on clock increasing. Foretelling the future is its own time travel. Fear at heart of the story - no one is afraid that the earth is going to slow down. Change in length of day - 2. 676 microseconds. At any point, something unexpected could end the world (won"t be something we know) Slowing down - world will end in a whimper. To see what i have, i feel the need to revise heavily as i go . Not writing with the end in mind. Educational apocalypse - schooling continuing on as if we are still in the 20th century. What does it mean to be coming of age in a world that is completely changed. Different world - trying to make it the same. In the book = stay on 24 hour clock, keep economy going.
