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Existence doing time: you're not in it, you're made of it.
means The condition of existing within time — being bound by past, present, and future rather than standing outside them.
from Built from Latin tempus ("time"), the same root that gives us temporary and tempo, plus the abstract-noun suffix -ity. Philosophers, especially in the 20th century (Heidegger's work on Being and Time is the famous turn), seized on temporality as the technical word for time considered not as clock-ticks but as a basic structure of existence itself.
- heidegger's spin
- being only makes sense stretched across past, present, future
- not clock time
- lived time stretches, stalls, sprints unevenly
- grammar clue
- every tense you speak smuggles in a philosophy
- the catch
- you experience time, but never catch it standing still