Difference between revisions of "Deep Time"

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-* '''Deep time''' &mdash; the geological concept (coined in the modern sense by John McPhee, after '''James Hutton''''s 18th-century insight) for the vast scales on which the Earth changes. Contemplated religiously, deep time is the '''kalpa''' of Hindu and Buddhist cosmology &mdash; an aeon so long it functions as a figure for eternity.
-* Companion to "[[Hydrogen Helium Lithium Leviathan]]" (cosmological time) and "[[Age Of Capricorn]]" (astrological time) on the album's time-scale triad.
-* Echoes the '''contemplative tradition''' of looking at stones and strata as a spiritual practice (Annie Dillard, Robert Macfarlane, the geological sublime).
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