“O, it sets my heart a clickin' like the tickin' of a clock, when the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock.” HeartFallMy HeartClockShockAutumnFrostFodder Book:The Days Gone by and Other Poems Source: The Days Gone by and Other Poems
“A naturall foole that could never learn by heart the order of numerall words, as one , two , and three , may observe every stroak of the Clock, and nod to it, or say one, one, one; but can never know what houre it strikes.” KnowsHeartMayTwoOrderThreeStrikesClock Book:Leviathan Source: Leviathan
“When the first mechanical clocks were invented, marking off time in crisp, regular intervals, it must have surprised people to discover that time flowed outside their own mental and physiological processes. Body time flows at its own variable rate, oblivious to the most precise hydrogen master clocks in the laboratory. In fact, the human body contains its own exquisite time-pieces, all with their separate rhythms. There are the alpha waves in the brain; another clock is the heart. And all the while tick the mysterious, ruthless clocks that regulate aging.” PeopleFirstsHumansHeartFactsBodyProcessBrainPiecesMastersFlowAgingRateWaveMysteriousRhythmClockPreciseHuman BodyLaboratoryRuthlessExquisiteIntervalsVariablesTickObliviousCrispsHydrogenAlphasPhysiological Book:Dance for Two: Essays Source: Dance for Two: Essays