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A Brief History of Time Perception

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The second part of Cardinal Newman’s poem The Dream of Gerontius, set to music so vividly by Edward Elgar, describes the progress of the soul of Gerontius towards its judgement in the presence of God. Newman tries to describe a situation without time, which the deceased Gerontius expresses like this:

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Wearden, J. (2016). A Brief History of Time Perception. In: The Psychology of Time Perception. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-40883-9_2

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