![]() ![]() We can revisit our high school prom in the span of two seconds and we can imagine for days taking part in an upcoming car race that will in fact only take two hours moreover, we can reverse this, too, dwelling on that prom for a week and summing up the race in a montage of minutes. Not simply our experience of time, but also our experience of transcending time-our ability to travel through time at different speeds, with our memories and consciousness and imagination as mile-markers. Among the many roles the line plays in Lerner’s novel, perhaps the strongest is its use as a description of time. Permutations of this line appear no less than five other times in 10:04. It describes a story told by the Hassidim about the future of the world. ![]() This is the ending line to the epigraph of Ben Lerner’s second novel 10:04, which is taken from Georgio Agamben’s The Coming Community, translated from the Italian by Michael Hardt. ![]()
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