![]() ![]() Relationships start with break ups and end with shy meet-cutes. ![]() ![]() So through the eyes of this hitchhiker, Amis shows us how funny our lives would be if experienced in reverse. Similarly, the toilet becomes the source of sustenance-yeah, I'm not going to explain that any further. The process of eating involves regurgitating food onto a plate and sculpting it into a meal (presumably one would then uncook the food, bag it, and return it to a supermarket). Although equipped with "general knowledge" this consciousness has no sense of what "normal" life is like-it is, for all intents and purposes, tabula rasa. Time literally flows backward, but at the same pace as we experience it in our lives, so this consciousness watches Tod grow younger. ![]() In Time's Arrow, Martin Amis creates a consciousness that experiences the life of Tod T. There's no going back, and there is no reliving the past. Whatever the objective nature of time, for humanity time moves in one direction common to everyone. It is, however, a well-known fact that humans, or at least most of us, experience time in an aggressively linear fashion. Entropy and the laws of thermodynamics seem to indicate that there is an "arrow of time," that time goes only in one "direction." Despite our best efforts, however, we still just don't know. The character of time is an open question in physics and philosophy. ![]()
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