universe until Milton’s Paradise Lost . Even written language had 
resisted for two centuries the abstract visual order of lineal 
succession and vanishing point. The next age after Marvell, 
however, took to landscape poetry and the subordination of 
language to special visual effects.

     But Marvell concluded his reverse strategy for the 
conquest of bourgeois clock-time with the observation

     Thus, though we cannot make our sun 
     Stand still, yet we will make him run.

He proposed that his beloved and he should transform 
themselves into a cannonball and fire themselves at the sun to 
make it run. Time can be defeated, as it were, by reversal of its 
characteristics if only it be speeded up enough. Experience of