For many in the modern world time has become a kind of sickness, an emblem of our overly mechanised lives which have become conditioned like clockwork to pursue empty routines and meaninglessly repetitive tasks.In outlining different concepts of time, we must draw attention to Catastrophic time, time as transitory, as signifying tragic loss, an idea also to be found in such philosophers as Schopenhauer and Sartre. How, then, can time be redeemed? Is it possible to find eternity in the midst of time? This kind of solution - if we can call it that - is found in the poetry of T.S. Eliot, the idea that in some sense all time is here and now in the present moment, "the still point of the turning world, quick now, here, now, always - a condition of complete simplicity....
