SQUEEZING THE WATER OF TIME OUT OF LIFE

The concept is old, but that’s just why it always hits us with its newness: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdE38IbLTyA&feature=player_embedded.

This could be an interesting literary assignment: compressing one year of one’s life into the Procrustean bed of two-hundred words, say… or else, two-hundred pages: no matter the scope of the self-imposed limitation, it’s the very fact of its existence that creates the liberating constraint.