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WILLIAM JAMES'S "SPECIOUS PRESENT" AND WILLA CATHER'S PHENOMENOLOGY OF MEMORY

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From: Philosophy Today
Date: 20061201
Author:Dooley, Patrick K

"One day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day."

2 Peter 3:8

"They held the funeral on the second day, with the town coming to look at Miss Emily beneath a mass of bought flowers, with the crayon face of her father musing profoundly above the bier and the ladies sibilant and macabre; and the very old men-some in their brushed Confederate uniforms-on the porch and the lawn, talking of Miss Emily as if she had been a contemporary of theirs believing that they had danced with her and courted her perhaps, confusing time with its mathematical progression, as the old ...

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