Notes
William James, Principles of Psychology, vol. 1 (New York: H. Holt, 1890), 625. The full sentence offers little encouragement for those of us hoping to age gracefully: “But as each passing year converts some of this experience into automatic routine which we hardly notice at all, the days and the weeks smooth themselves out into contentless units, and the years grow hollow and collapse.”
Ibid. For treatments of time in other disciplines, see, for example, Sarah Sharma, In the Meantime: Temporality and Cultural Politics (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014); Mary L. Dudziak, Wartime: An Idea, Its History, Its Consequences (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012); Barbara Myerhoff, Number Our Days: Culture and Community among Elderly Jews in an American Ghetto (New York: Meridian, 1994).
See, for example, Steve M. J. Janssen, Makiko Naka, and William J. Friedman, “Why Does Life Appear to Speed Up as People Get Older?,” Time & Society 22, no. 2 (2013): 274–290.
Penelope J. Corfield, Time and the Shape of History (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007), 220.