Our Inward life of pure time is sluggish or fast-flowing depending on our rate of conductivity. Just as certain metals and alloys when suitably cooled conduct electricity without generating any heat, and therefore without losing any of the energy they are carrying, so certain people may be superconductors of time. As well as experiencing time as we normally understand it, they experience time as a larger all encompassing dimension and so be in touch with much more than the present.

Artists and gurus are,
in the language of science,
superconductors.



Text by Jeanette Winterson from Sexing the Cherry
Photograph by Andrew from CubaGallery.