1 In his ‘A Nocturnal upon St Lucy’s Day’, c.1627.
2 Maurice Merleau-Ponty, The Visible and the Invisible (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1968), pp. 130–55.
3 J. Zihl, D. von Cramon, and N. Mai, ‘Selective disturbance of movement vision after bilateral brain damage’, Brain, 106 (1983), pp. 313–40.
4 Lydia Davis, ‘Grammar Questions’ in Varieties of Disturbance (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007) and in The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009), pp. 527–9.
5 As debated by Bertrand Russell’s 1905 ‘theory of descriptions’, in which a bald King of France stars.
6 As in Lucrecia Martel’s 2008 film The Headless Woman, which includes shots inside the shut windows of a car, or in the 1960s and onwards, those very prolonged and steady panning takes in Straub–Huillet movies.
7 But see the work of Lenore C. Terr on children’s time perception, including her paper ‘Time and Trauma’, Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 39 (1984), pp. 633–65.
8 See Merleau-Ponty: ‘To analyze time is not to follow out the consequences of a pre-established conception of subjectivity, it is to gain access, through time, to its concrete structure.’ Phenomenology of Perception (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1962), p. 410.
9 Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception, p. 426.
10 Ibid., p. 431.
11 Merleau-Ponty, again citing Heidegger, adds: ‘I am myself time, a time which “abides” and does not flow or change, which is what Kant says in various places.’ Phenomenology of Perception, p. 421.
12 Henry King, ‘The Exequy’, in Poems, Elegies, Paradoxes and Sonnets (London: J. G. for Richard Marriot, 1657).
13 Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Boston: Little, Brown, 1924; Bartleby.com, 2000. www.bartleby.com/113/. [29/01/2019].
14 Helen Vendler comments on this in her Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010), pp. 358–9.
15 G. W. F. Hegel, Hegel’s Aesthetics, trans. by T. M. Knox, 2 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975), 2, p. 908.
16 S. Freud (1929) Letter to Binswanger. In Letters of Sigmund Freud (New York: Basic Books, 1960).
17 Don DeLillo, The Body Artist (New York: Scribner, 2001), p. 77.
18 Ibid., p. 126.
19 From her book Emergence (Hastings: Reality Street Editions, 2010), p. 13.