erica - response 4

So this is trying to define for the reader what a spectacle is… but I feel like any sort of explicit explanation would be a lot easier to understand than all of this metaphor. I found myself having to read this in bits and then do something else and come back; I could barely read a whole page at once. Each section of this requires its own puzzling and digestion; the more I read, the more confused I felt. I was especially stumped by the discussion of time and the flow of time. This reads as if time were a physical thing, to be stored and spent. I assume that is more metaphor. How can one have a “surplus” of time? If cyclic time is to be avoided (I think, from what I understood of chapter 5), then how is pseudo-cyclical time something desirable? Isn’t all time consumable?