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Time and Time Again: Reports from a Boundary of the Universe

Time and Time Again: Reports from a Boundary of the Universe © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2008 DOI: 10.1163/156771508X444611 KronoScope 8 . 2 ( 2008 ) 179 – 192 www.brill.nl/kron Time’s Books J.T. Fraser. Time and Time Again: Reports from a Boundary of the Universe . Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2007 . xiv + 433 pp. It is a customary saying that one should not judge a book by its cover. However, the author’s fondness for turning a host of time-honored assumptions upside down in order to make them truly right side up encourages the reader not to judge but to exercise a preliminary forecasting of this book precisely by its cover. It is only a slight exaggeration to say that this reviewer has spent almost as much time contemplating Casper David Friedrich’s painting, with the book’s tile and subtitle becoming an integral component of the landscape, as reading the text itself, an admission that wishes to underscore and celebrate the beauty of the written pages the painting covers. The sparse lines of a short preamble, “About the Cover” (xi), are as profound and incisive in their content as the main body of this text. J.T. Fraser reminds his reader what the painting entitled Wanderer Overlooking a Sea of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Kronoscope Brill

Time and Time Again: Reports from a Boundary of the Universe

Assad, Maria
Kronoscope , Volume 8 (2): 179 – Jan 1, 2009
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© 2009 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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10.1163/156771508X444611
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© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2008 DOI: 10.1163/156771508X444611 KronoScope 8 . 2 ( 2008 ) 179 – 192 www.brill.nl/kron Time’s Books J.T. Fraser. Time and Time Again: Reports from a Boundary of the Universe . Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2007 . xiv + 433 pp. It is a customary saying that one should not judge a book by its cover. However, the author’s fondness for turning a host of time-honored assumptions upside down in order to make them truly right side up encourages the reader not to judge but to exercise a preliminary forecasting of this book precisely by its cover. It is only a slight exaggeration to say that this reviewer has spent almost as much time contemplating Casper David Friedrich’s painting, with the book’s tile and subtitle becoming an integral component of the landscape, as reading the text itself, an admission that wishes to underscore and celebrate the beauty of the written pages the painting covers. The sparse lines of a short preamble, “About the Cover” (xi), are as profound and incisive in their content as the main body of this text. J.T. Fraser reminds his reader what the painting entitled Wanderer Overlooking a Sea of

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Published: Jan 1, 2009

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