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‘Und mit der Zeit hattest du es gleich am ersten Tage zu tun’1(From the very beginning you began bothering about time) might well serve as a motto for Powell’s discourse.
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Joyau, I. (1994). Time in A Dance to the Music of Time . In: Investigating Powell’s A Dance to the Music of Time. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23284-0_2
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