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Re: How can you make subjective time go slower?

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Post by shadowprofile77 »

j-james wrote: post #39
plmpsu wrote: post #3

"Dunbar loved shooting skeet because he hated every minute of it and the time passed so slowly. He had figured out that a single hour on the skeet-shooting range with people like Havermeyer and Appleby could be worth as much as eleven-times-seventeen years." Catch-22 The full quote is worth your while: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/496826-dunbar-loved-shootin...

The full book is worth your while. It's admittedly a long read, but one of the funniest books I've ever read, chock-full of absurd conversations and timeless satire. https://bookshop.org/books/catch-22-9781451626650/9781451626...

It is indeed funny at first, and for a long while thereafter. After though, it descends at first by degrees then quite abruptly into depressing grimness, revealing the scope of a tragedy that was the case all along, only veiled by that wonderfully absurd, sometimes black humor.

I love this book like few other novels, partly because it has so much more impact than a simple comedy would..

Re: How can you make subjective time go slower?

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Post by Hokusai »

acjohnson55 wrote: post #46

I used to think that novelty the key to making time go slow, I now think there is a limit to this. I've had a couple jobs that are absolutely filled with novelty, where every day is pretty different from the last. At some point, it becomes a bit of a vortex. I know I've done a lot, but damned if I can actually remember it at the end of the day. This also happened to me when spending six weeks backpacking in Europe. A…

> I used to think that novelty the key to making time go slow, I now think there is a limit to this.

Yes. Similar experience here. I moved countries at 40. The first few months it feel like being 20 years younger. I wanted to see everything and went around discovering each place possible.

But, I am not young anymore. Nowadays, my new country is my new home and it feel cozy an familiar and time passes faster than ever.

> This also happened to me when spending six weeks backpacking in Europe.

For me it took longer. I have visited Japan 5 times, usually 5-6 weeks each time. I have visited temples, museums, parks, events, ... The last time I spend half of the time shopping. As, I felt that each new temple is similar to the previous one.

Even traveling to South Korea, and China it does not slows time so much. I guess that the similarities with other Asian countries makes my brain feel like "I have seen that one before".

I would be very interested in knowing if the problem is just age or to have seen already many things. Probably a combination of both.

Re: How can you make subjective time go slower?

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Post by circlefavshape »

shadowprofile77 wrote: post #61
j-james wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The full book is worth your while. It's admittedly a long read, but one of the funniest books I've ever read, chock-full of absurd conversations and timeless satire. https://bookshop.org/books/catch-22-9781451626650/9781451626...

It is indeed funny at first, and for a long while thereafter. After though, it descends at first by degrees then quite abruptly into depressing grimness, revealing the scope of a tragedy that was the case all along, only veiled by that wonderfully absurd, sometimes black humor. I love this book like few other novels, partly because it has so much more impact than a simple comedy would..

Indeed. The first time I read that I was actually crying laughing on the train ... and then as the book progresses you realise the depth of the sadness that was underneath all along.

Re: How can you make subjective time go slower?

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Post by saurik »

acjohnson55 wrote: post #46

I used to think that novelty the key to making time go slow, I now think there is a limit to this. I've had a couple jobs that are absolutely filled with novelty, where every day is pretty different from the last. At some point, it becomes a bit of a vortex. I know I've done a lot, but damned if I can actually remember it at the end of the day. This also happened to me when spending six weeks backpacking in Europe. A…

It sounds like it wasn't really novelty, then, right?

Re: How can you make subjective time go slower?

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Post by jacquesm »

j-james wrote: post #39
plmpsu wrote: post #3

"Dunbar loved shooting skeet because he hated every minute of it and the time passed so slowly. He had figured out that a single hour on the skeet-shooting range with people like Havermeyer and Appleby could be worth as much as eleven-times-seventeen years." Catch-22 The full quote is worth your while: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/496826-dunbar-loved-shootin...

The full book is worth your while. It's admittedly a long read, but one of the funniest books I've ever read, chock-full of absurd conversations and timeless satire. https://bookshop.org/books/catch-22-9781451626650/9781451626...

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