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From: mwg@petrus.UUCP (Mark Garrett)
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Subject: Re: Visualization of `time'
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Date: Thu, 9-Jan-86 09:45:41 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan  9 09:45:41 1986
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> The recent postings about the perception of numbers remind me
> of a realization I had a few years ago regarding the way I (and others)
> perceive `time'. 
> For example, I visualize the seasons as lying on a circle (actually a flat
> torus) which is almost level but tilted a bit upwards. Winter
> is on top, fall and spring to the left and right and summer at the bottom.
> When I look at it I sit at about the end of summer and beginning of fall.
> 					Panos Economopoulos

That's funny; that's how I see it too (more or less).  I think the end
of summer has become a natural orientation point because that is where
every school year begins; and when, as children, we were most conscious
that a new year was beginning, having come full circle once more.
-Mark Garrett