“Until you watch it linearly, a film has undefined duration, and this is experienced as infinite. An infinite duration is experienced as a living interval that is infinitely interesting. Books may share this property. Although this is true even of brief examples, it is more true of examples of the length we are used to. Allow me to illustrate.

If you come at a film from a random position each time, and watch what I will call ‘a scene segment’ of some duration, say, 10-12 minutes, you will begin to discover that there are always parts of the film you have not yet seen, and thus the duration will extend out over time in ways ordinary watchings cannot convey. In fact, this form of watching -changes your relationship with time- not just your experience of the temporality of the film. And books function similarly.

Experiment. The way you enter time has a lot to do with what your experience portends to you. Some ways of entering time, change your relationship to it, and some of these changes are dramatic and worth exploring deeply.”

— an anonymous temporonaut