Posts Tagged ‘City of Small Blessings’
The cosmopolitan youth and the old man ask what is home in Simon Tay’s City of Small Blessings
In this poetic but tranquil collision, the City of Small Blessings brings together a father and a son, two disparate elements of Singapore society – the greying population and its cosmopolitan youths – to question the common loss [...]
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The collision of time
25Dec08
It is easy to assume the linearity of time, it moves forward and never returns, thus we have past, present and future. We move towards the future, implying a uni-direction to a state of things ahead of us.
But what if the future can come to us? That is, we are moving to the future, but [...]
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Tags: City of Small Blessings, future, Histories of the Future, Pamela Jackson, Simon Tay, time
