AH February 2024
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The ticking clock, the
tolling bell
hey say time is the fire in which we burn.”
I’ve always loved that line from the 1994 movie “Star Trek: Generations”
where Malcolm McDowell’s character Soran chastises Patrick Stewart’s
Capt. Picard for not allowing him to do something he wants to do. I’ve
recently learned that it’s a shortened version of a line from the poem
"Calmly We Walk through This April’s Day" by Delmore Schwartz.
The complete four-line excerpt from the poem goes like this:
“What will become of you and me / (This is the school in which we learn ...)
Besides the photo and the memory? / (... that time is the fire in which we burn.)”
As of this month, I’ve burned 56 years in the fire. As birthdays do for many over
50, I find myself turning contemplative. Mostly, I’ve been thinking about all the
ways we talk about marking the passage of time and the inevitable approach of that
moment when our time is up.
Capt. Hook heard the telltale ticking of the clock in the stomach of the giant
crocodile that pursued him to his destiny. In another poem, John Donne instructs
us not to ask for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for us all.
In their song “Time,” Pink Floyd talks about running and running to catch up
with the sinking sun. When that sun comes back around, the song goes, it’s “the
same in a relative way, but you’re older, shorter of breath and one day closer to
death.”
Like the sands in an hourglass, so are the days of our lives. Dali shows us clocks
melting in a nightmare desert, representing … something. Then there’s “kala,”
the Indian concept of time that I’m only recently familiar with but which seem
incredibly diverse.
The overarching theme of all these time references is that we appreciate time
because we know it’s limited. Sure, the sound of the tolling bell is still pretty distant
for me, but it’s also a fair bit closer than 24 years ago when I was a little more
than halfway to this point, and I am well aware that that urgent clanging can grow
suddenly louder at a moment’s notice.
So, to close, let’s return to Schwartz’s work:
“What am I now that I was then? / May memory restore again and again
The smallest color of the smallest day: / Time is the school in which we learn,
Time is the fire in which we burn.”
Edward J. Brock, Senior Editor
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