ABSTRACT

Edward T. Hall's subject in The Dance of Life is the "wide discrepancy between time as it is lived and time as it is considered." In The Dance of Life, Hall presents what amounts almost to a tasting menu of nine separate time-as-it-is-lived experiences. Hall's time-awareness writings are more than just profound scene shifters, and also make the author to think of the orderly, sharply focused work of an earlier student of the sky, Luke Howard, the "cloud namer," a man honoured as the "father of meteorology." Although Hall doesn't discuss Deep Travel directly, thanks to his closely observed descriptions of what he calls "variable time," it's possible to see that Deep Travel time occupies a kind of middle ground in a broad scale of time variations. Emergency situations, Hall points out in The Dance of Life, can activate "a built-in, variable time sensor" that can save lives.