![]() ![]() If you do so, you might get the queasy feeling that our ways of measuring time and space entail more voodoo and irrationality than we generally allow ourselves to believe. If this doesn’t seem strange to you, go back and reread that sentence (and all of the above).Īnyway, this entire rant is a plea to pan back from our reflexive habits of calculating time, space, and value in primitive units of measurement such as hours, miles, and dollars. and arrives at Moscow Sheremetyevo on October 4 at 12:25 p.m. Now please concentrate: the plane leaves Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk on October 4 at 11:50 a.m. The fuzziness here kind of matches the weird mundanity of the plane ticket I bought for my return from Sakhalin to Moscow. golden autumn or 43 days if lurching from town to town in railway sleeping cars and stopping sloppily along the way in the fall of 2019 or 2 1/2 months if traveling by river and peasant cart in the spring of 1890) (5768 miles, or 9,282 kilometers, or eight hours, if you remain completely still and happen to be in both places at once or 5 days and 5 hours by car (if you wear a heavy-duty diaper, hook yourself up to an IV for a continual coffee drip, and don’t sleep) or 6 days, 1 hour plus 3 hours if by train and plane or 11 months or more if trudging in shackles in a prison convoy through the famous four seasons of Siberia (1. ![]() Why don’t we meet on Sakhalin, where we can just kind of continue the conversation that we have begun here, and finish our cup of tea? The distance between the two towns This was a void of space, but it began to fill with people.Īt Melikhovo in July, Postal Museum director Zhenia mentioned that she was traveling to Sakhalin Island in mid-September to mount an exhibit at the Chekhov’s Island of Sakhalin Book Museum in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. It was kind of like throwing myself into the void. Having come upon an unexpectedly free stretch of time, I decided to follow Chekhov’s footsteps to Sakhalin Island, not fully knowing why. ![]() My clients (a.k.a students) tend to believe this too, and need to be broken in gently. Don’t tell my boss, for my workplace values the rational and empirical, and fully believes that science can explain human behavior, and that everything of importance can be quantified. I have begun to believe in magic, in fate, in mysterious forces, in the invisible, and in wishes that might come true. ![]()
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