to Eliot Weinberger on his LXXV I. Madagascar:                                “a rice cooking”                                                                    (about half an hour)                                “a locust frying”                                                                    (a split second) Sioux:                                “dies in less space                                than a roasting of maize”                                                                    (under fifteen minutes) Burma:                                monks trained                                in the increments of dawn                                                                    (sifting daybreak                                                                    through their fingers                                                                    like bolts of lotus silk) Chile:                                an Ave […]

Original source: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/03/21/time-task-richard-sieburth/