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Joan Stambaugh

10 June 1932-7 July 2013

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Aesthetic time is the very special time indigenous to a work of art, for example, to a drama or a piece of music. We can get so absorbed in a tragedy or a symphony that the 'objective' time measured by the clock becomes irrelevant.

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Clock time is not really 'time', but time measurement. It is time as crucial to everyday existence so that I can get to work on time, meet someone for lunch, catch an airplane, etc.