the pair "Swamped" and &q...

the pair "Swamped" and "Shirine: A Thousand and single in kind Nights" are stories which can be described as formal engagements with the representation of time, meditations forward how character is both situated in time and by-passed according to events. Although both stories emphasize the "velocity" of time, their approaches are diametrically oppos "Swamped" magnifies and draws revealed a moment, the period of an evening in a bar. It begins with the everyday. by means of contrast, "Shirine" establishes an epic-like aim with points of respect that span seven centuries.