Clock Fever, Lou Reed, and More
The brass astrolabe, the water clock, and finally the mechanical timepiece: 14th-century Europe couldn’t get enough of clocks.
The brass astrolabe, the water clock, and finally the mechanical timepiece: 14th-century Europe couldn’t get enough of clocks... more »
Lou Reed came to embody a New York that exists only in memory — a city of unbridled id and romantic sleaze... more »
As memoirists know, it is tempting to substitute today’s psychological truth for history. But memory is …