Secant time. You can do that. You are a writer, after all. You can make anything happen.
From playwright Julie Goodall (1997:235):
She knocks over her cup. AUDREY jumps up to wipe the table. ISABEL indicates no.
ISABEL: If you were a fly you’d see that in slow motion. They’re so tiny, they perceive smaller amounts of time than we do. Smaller than a second. I saw it on TV. You knock over your cup. It sees the coffee pour out like a slow waterfall. Or lava flowing down. Hitting the table drop by drop. And single drops fly up to make a crown. Small units of time. See, Audie?
AUDREY nods.
Writer, would you like to stop time. See the moment. Is there collision? Is there crown? Is there crater?
Goodall, Julie. 1997. ‘Texas, Queensland’ in The La Mama Collection: Six Plays for the 1990s. Sydney: Currency Press
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