Summary of Simon Garfield's Timekeepers

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 When I was cycling with my son, we were hit by a car. It was just as people had said: time seemed to slow down. I can remember the fall not exactly in slow motion, but extended, each tiny event surrounding the accident logged as if it might be my last. #2 The brain will try to process the event as quickly as possible, because accidents are frightening and significant events. But our brains will also create more vivid memories of them, which will make them seem like they took longer than they did. #3 I was back in a cradle where time was no longer my own. I thought about how everything that passed for time in this setting was self-imposed and self- ordained, and I wondered how such an alliance had come about. #4 The most famous line in Seneca’s essay comes right at the start, a reminder of a famous saying by the Greek physician Hippocrates: Life is short, art is long. The exact meaning of this is still open to interpretation, but Seneca’s employment of the phrase confirms that the nature of time was a topic that thinkers in Ancient Greece and Rome found extremely engaging.