Time, to the Pink, is only what oozes through his watch; he sees not its total pervasiveness. The SubGenius knows that time is what we beads are strung on. It makes possibility possible, it kindly allows us to feel we are continuous and mercifully hides from us that we are instantaneous.

Time Control is what we've wanted all along. It makes pain hurry and Slack slow down. We perceive the lack of it clearly when, for instance, we are in a crowded room and must withhold a tremendous fart. In those horizonless moments before the gas-ball "seeps back in," we consciously wish we could ignore it... and we could, had we true Time Control.

Any form of postponement or procrastination is a subtle "bite" of Time Control, and so slightly sacred.

Even Pinks strive for Time Control without knowing it. It is the reason they love stories, movies, jokes, songs -- what are these, if not Time Control? Unlike mundane live experience, these media seem to compress time. They make events happen with more clarity than Normality would allow. All the following are Time Control: language, writing, photography, recording, shortcuts, matter transmitters, stimulant drugs, fossils, pyramids, TV Dinners, torture, daylight savings time, and prophecy.

And so the SubGenius pays attention to the strange Rates and Paces at which our lives are projected. He rewinds back to whatever memory-frame he desires and lets it stand frozen for his inspection. He manipulates his own moods by splicing together the appropriate thoughts. For even hallowed Time may be compressed, preserved, extended, traversed, frozen, twisted, reversed, knotted, circled, recycled, looped, and even erased.

TIME CONTROL IS POSSIBLE: preserve the past, boil it down, extract its Patterns, and WIELD IT WITHOUT MERCY!!

For the vivid SubGenius imagination is in a churning turmoil of constant growth, and it can make the Wait blessed. (When starving, or contemplating unpaid bills, the SubGenius eats his imagination for breakfast and lunches on his own soul!) It invents more possibility of future pain and joy, letting us see their immense range and depth, and that they are subjective. We then realize that Duration is dependent upon Mood. Could we control our own Rates, we could shorten apparent paintime to zero and apparent Slacktime infinitely.

The SubGenius performs Memory Editing: he buries his arm deep in the Archives of the Skor, gropes for the proper File and its specific remembrances, and Retrieves it to scan at leisure. And he knows that this File, and his Archive, are but one Drawer in the greater Archive of all creation. For everything is but a pattern, an intersection in the Code. Everything exists at once; it just shifts position continuously. Every distinct object we see around us is but an opening into the Files. Don't worry if you "missed something;" it's all "in the can." It will all be "aired" again, in some better world. And The Angelic Host which must soon descend will bring an Index to all the shifting Patterns of the Code, providing us with a Guide to the AntiLaws.

But we have been warned of The Tampering.

Via

"Well, you don't see everything at once. When you look at a room, an object, or a person, you look at different parts and the brain puts it all together as a picture. Whistler said that nature copies art, and, in a way, people don't see things until they're shown. A lot of people have said they never noticed any of this until they saw my paintings. They've lived in New York all their lives and its always been there, but people simply didn't see it because their eyes were not attuned to it. People found the Impressionist paintings very shocking when they first saw them because the color wasn't what they were accustomed to seeing. Now, with color photography, we find that the Impressionists were absolutely right. But at that time the public was walking around in a brown haze."

-Richard Estes

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