Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed With Time, Simon GarfieldTime flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana. The Beatles learn to be brilliant in an hour and a half. An Englishman arrives back from Calcutta but refuses to adjust his watch. Beethoven has his symphonic wishes ignored. A US Senator begins a speech that will last for 25 hours. The horrors of war are frozen at the click of a camera. A woman designs a ten hour clock and reinvents the calendar. Roger Bannister lives out the same four minutes

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