From Mann's Magic Mountain

"Space, rolling and revolving between him and his native heath, possessed and wielded the powers we generally ascribe to time. From hour to hour it worked changes in him, like to those wrought by time, yet in a way even more striking. Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness, giving us back our primitive, unattached state." Translated by H.T. Lowe-Porter

Protesting Inconvertible Money

A cartoon by George Cruikshank, parodying the form of the bank note in order to protest the government authorizing the Bank of England to temporarily refuse to change bank notes for bullion.

1979 Penny

That fateful image towards the end of Jeannot Szwarc's Somewhere in Time (1980), when Richard Collier (played by Christopher Reeve) pulls out the 1979 penny from his pocket, and is transported irreversibly back to his own time, leaving his love Elise McKenna (Jane Seymour) in 1912. What if one were to think of this time-travel romance as a metaphor? Across space or across ideology. The irreversible, insurmountable gaps that separate us, making no distinction between ideal and material existence. Is heaven to come or is heaven that which is reflected back upon? The eternal beckoning, "come back to me..."