‘Serial time requires a serial observer’

• +..electro


• +..deconstructed electro


• +..dreamwave

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Dunne sees time from above, spread out beneath him as one might look down upon the landscape from an aeroplane (or, like Watkins, from a hill). From this perspective, however, the landscape that Dunne observes seems curiously incomplete, a lop-sided view of the universe with the ‘future’ part unaccountably missing, cut off from the growing ‘past’ by a travelling ‘present moment’.For when awake we are denied an overview of time in its entirety by a self-imposed mental barrier which prevents us seeing beyond the present moment as we move along within it. It is only in dreams that we ascend to a point at which we are able to move both backwards and forwards in time, in an unhindered fashion, ‘continually crossing and recrossing that properly non-existent equator which we, waking, ruled quite arbitrarily athwart the whole’. Dunne’s perception of time as a fourth dimension with duration in space, draws on Einstein’s vision of the universe as a four-dimensional map, the block universe through which the course of an individual’s life may be plotted as a timeline. Dunne is aware that such a view of time would once have been regarded as heretical, but by the time at which he was writing the classical theory of time was no longer in place and Dunne regarded it as his role to provide mankind with a replacement.
Coverley, Merlin