LebTown
(Jeff Falk)
Does anybody really care? ?
– Chicago
Time is precious, but we still need pastimes. As we consume time, time consumes us.
We mark time arbitrarily, with seconds, minutes, hours, days, months and years and with age and calendars. Today, our phones and countless other devices serve as a reminder that time is fleeting (and difficult to manage). These digital clocks fill a need that society once met in a much more public way.
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‘Hey buddy, got the time?’
In downtown Lebanon, there are at least three public clocks, none of which work if indeed keeping time is still their collective goal.