the problem, of course, is time-
(always time, menacing thief, exasperated lover, begrudging teacher of all things wonderful and fragile and finite and splendid and alive and ultimately dead)
-a world away from another world, more corrupt, more simple, less stratification, less nuance –
(this is not true at all, if anything there is a greater range of nuance to the greek language and people, a constant analysis and counter analysis, examination and burial and excavation)
-and there is no catching up, no synchronicity: it’s impossible, they are literally living in the future, 7 hours at a time.
(perhaps this is why facebook works for them the way it does: a record of their likes and dislikes, not a catalog of where they are every instant [this ugly new trend of people “checking in”], mini websites and blogs, expressing themselves through found internet art, music videos, pictures, in photographs: they are broadcasting onto a monument against time, for those of us living out of it, for those of us tracing out the future through their past)