48. Slowness

Motion always has a feeling of rest to it, in so far as motion is. Existence has slowness and speed in it; history, which is existence as so far we’ve had it, is slowness and speed.

When mind is both slow and speedy, it has pleasure.

Mind makes for slowness and speed in terms of past and present. Mind can join a century with a moment, or a day with six months. And mind can be a snail, or a grasshopper; or the ox-cart, or lightning.

All art has to do with slowness and speed. Colors, for example, have slowness or speed to them. Elements of architecture have.

49. Speed

Activity to being is as speed to slowness. Speed, seen fully, is the great uniter. Complete fastness of motion would be rest; for that which could be elsewhere, no matter where, without hesitation, would already be there; and therefore at rest.