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“Our obsession with measuring time is itself timeless. After self-awareness,it may be our most distinctive trait as a species, since undoubtedly one of the first things we became self-aware about was our own mortality- the fact that we live and die in a set period of time.” (Duncan, 1998, viii).
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Weiss, J., Brown, R.S. (2013). Time as Storyline. In: Telling Tales Over Time. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-263-1_2
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