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For a thousand years in your sight

are but as yesterday when it is past,

or as a watch in the night.

But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

Mind time and clock time are two totally different things. They flow at varying rates.

The chronological passage of the hours, days, and years on clocks and calendars is a steady, measurable phenomenon. Yet our perception of time shifts constantly, depending on the activities we’re engaged in, our age, and even how much rest we get.

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…time as we experience it represents perceived changes in mental stimuli. It’s related to what we see. As physical mental-image processing time and the rapidity of images we take in changes, so does our perception of time. And in some sense, each of us has our own “mind time” unrelated to the passing of hours, days, and years on clocks and calendars, which is affected by the amount of rest we get and other factors.

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Time is happening in the mind’s eye. It is related to the number of mental images the brain encounters and organizes and the state of our brains as we age. When we get older, the rate at which changes in mental images are perceived decreases because of several transforming physical features, including vision, brain complexity, and later in life, degradation of the pathways that transmit information. And this shift in image processing leads to the sense of time speeding up.

Clock time and mind time perception over a lifetime.



Another factor in time’s perceived passage is how the brain develops. As the brain and body grow more complex and there are more neural connections, the pathways that information travels are increasingly complicated. They branch like a tree and this change in processing influences our experience of time…

Brief Aside

How could consciousness itself feel like “I” if the feeling of self must appear within it to be known?

And how could you feel that there is a self unless such a feeling appears, to be known?

Filled with flashbacks to Jerry and George’s days in high school, this episode finds both characters haunted by their past as Jerry is hounded by a library cop for a book he allegedly didn’t return in 1971 and George is convinced a homeless man is his old atomic-wedgie-giving gym teacher. Meanwhile, Kramer becomes involved with a librarian and Elaine is having trouble impressing her boss. Paul Thomas Anderson-regular Philip Baker Hall guest stars as Lt. Bookman, the library cop. Viewers may wish to note that the role of Elaine’s boss, Mr. Lippman is played here by Harris Shore. Richard Fancy would assume the role in all subsequent episodes.

Originally airing October 16, 1991, “The Library” was the fourth episode shot for the third season, despite being the fifth one shown.

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Pre-Watch Thoughts

This is one of my favorite Seinfeld episodes.

“Mr. Bookman”, if I recall the character’s name correctly, makes the show with his surprise rapid-fire delivery of old-timey cop vibe about an unreturned library book.

Kramer’s passionate love affair with the poetry-writing librarian is a solidly funny storyline, and the whole “Tropic of Capricorn/Cancer” thing with the gym teacher and George getting an atomic wedgie… this episode is hilarious.

Pre-Watch Rating

7

Live Blog

01:27, Kramer: upon hearing about Jerry’s overdue book says, “Do you know how much that comes to? That’sa Nickle a day for twenty years… that’s gonna be $50.000.”

I did the math, it’s only $36,500.

Sherry Becker is the name of Jerry’s crush in high school.

Kramer’s instant assessment of the librarian is hilarious.

​04:01, Kramer:​ “Bookman? The library investigator’s name is actually Bookman?”

“That’s like an ice cream man’s named ‘Cone’.”

​Mr. Haymen​ is the name of the gym teacher.

​05:42, Kramer:​ “So, uh… what’s a guy gotta do around here to get a library card?”

Woah, Mr. Litman isn’t the same Mr. Litman.

Baked beans is a horrible teeth thing. Ugh.

08:57, Elain, upon hearing Jerry explain to her what a wedgie and atomic wedgie are: “Boys are sick.”

“We just tease someone until they develop an eating disorder.”

09:50, Mr. Bookman begins his first rant, about coffee, and how Jerry doesn’t have any.

You can see Jerry trying not to laugh as the guy gets going.

It’s ​hilarious​.

“Flashy, makin’ the scene, flaunting convention.”

“Well I gotta flash for ya, ​joy boy​.”

12:18, as Bookman leaves Jerry’s apartment, the audience applause seems quite genuine.

It is a really really funny bit.

I was laughing out loud here, in my headphones.

The main joke here, that Jerry really ​did not return the book​, is based upon a thing I think about a lot: the fallibility of the human memory system.

High-school-aged Jerry and George are fun.

The librarian’s poem is ​not good​.

16:04, Bookman, “While you’re thinking about that, think about this: the library closes at 5pm, no exceptions.”

Jerry was way ahead of his time trashing Columbus.

Post-watch Thoughts

Mr. Bookman is even funnier than I remembered.

Kramer is so funny in this episode.

This is one of my favs, for sure.

Post-Watch Rating

8.5