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.