by Prof.Pedant » Mon Jan 13, 2014 9:32 pm
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I think that the punchline derives from the pleasure of reading Tolstoy (i.e. "I could do this for hours and hours!") balanced against the anticipation of what will happen in an hour. On the one hand an hour is an entirely insufficient period of time, and on the other it is an entirely too long period of time - and presto! a timeless state occurs.... Or is there another way that the test subject reaches a timeless state?
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I think that the punchline derives from the pleasure of reading Tolstoy (i.e. "I could do this for hours and hours!") balanced against the anticipation of what will happen in an hour. On the one hand an hour is an entirely insufficient period of time, and on the other it is an entirely too long period of time - and presto! a timeless state occurs.... Or is there another way that the test subject reaches a timeless state?