Time versus Labour: the Perpetual Struggle

Rebecca W Morris
16 min readAug 17, 2023

Time, I’m leaving you

A black and white image of a silent movie. A man with specs and a flat, straw hat hangs off the hand of a clock on the side of a tall building in the city.
Image from film Safety Last! (1923): Credit thegirlwhoknewtoomuch

I want time to know he doesn’t scare me.

But he does.

Who doesn’t have a battle with time?

Since Einstein’s theory of relativity, theorists have argued that time as we know it doesn’t exist, though this has been hotly contested by some physicists in the scientific community.

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Rebecca W Morris

Art, activism, sound and the body. Editor and Contributor to Medium publication, Those Who Were Dancing.