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accumulated momentum, an archaic configuration.
The modern clock, mechanical in principle, embodied the
wheel. The clock has ceased to have its older meanings and
functions. Plurality-of-times succeeds uniformity-of-time.
Today it is only too easy to have dinner in New York and
indigestion in Paris. Travellers also have the daily experience of
being at one hour in a culture that is still 3000 B.C., and at the
next hour in a culture that is 1900 A.D. Most of North
American life is, in its externals, conducted on nineteenth-
century lines. Our inner experience, increasingly at variance with
these mechanical patterns, is electric, inclusive, and mythic in
mode. The mythic or iconic mode of awareness substitutes the
multi-faceted for point-of-view.
Historians agree on the basic role of the clock in monastic