We will be announcing the topics for the final on Monday, March 1. During the week, the Teaching Assistants will be conducting four hour-long discussion sessions for the purpose of reviewing course material and helping you answer questions you may have. These sessions will take place on Tuesday, March 2 and on Thursday, March 4 in Filene. The sessions will occur on both days from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. and from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. Attend whichever you like.

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(Questions 2-4 are a carry-over from last Friday)

Question 1: What sort of reality does today's modern art reflect? What does it tell us about how we see time today? (This is a student question from the website.)

Question 2: One definition of time is that it is that which is measured by a clock. But we use clocks to measure things as diverse as the giving of a speech, the running of a race, the boiling of an egg, the taking of a nap. What then would you describe as the nature of time according to this definition?

Question 3: What different conceptualizations of time can you come up with based on your own experience?

[Cf. All course readings and discussions to date.]

Question 4: How can you argue in favor of, or against, the independent existence of time?

Question 5: How is time inscribed in the first paragraph, pages 1 and 2, of One Hundred Years of Solitude?

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