Hours, Accidental and Arbitrary: A Year of Writing Lonely by LEE WENG CHOY

What I had wanted to work on then, and still want to now, is the topic of time. Time has been a recurring theme for me for—I don’t know how long—and questions about coincidence and relation have preoccupied me since the turn of the century. As 2021 drew to a close, I thought about how years, months and days contrast with hours and minutes. The first three units have a basis in astronomical phenomena that punctuate our lives: the orbit of our planet around the sun; the cycle of our moon; the rotation of Earth. But whatever led humans to partition the day into twenty-four hours, and each hour into sixty minutes?
—Lee Weng Choy

“It was the first sunny Saturday after a winter of endless rains. I was reading my friend Weng’s reflections on time. Time passed. Time stood still. For moments I could hear his voice—clearer than ever (March 25, 2023).”
— Hans Sluga, William and Trudy Ausfahl Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley

2023, published by Stolon Press, 24 pages, 10 x 19 cm