“On the Calculation of Volume” is a petri dish—one in which Solvej Balle experiments without intending to arrive at an absolute solution or a unifying theory.
In reality, our mind goes faster—or sometimes slower. Its style is more varied, richer, and less reassuring: it skips certain passages, it preserves an exact record of certain ‘unimportant’ details, it repeats and doubles back on itself. And this mental time, with its peculiarities, its gaps, its obsessions, its obscure areas, is the one that interests us since it is the tempo of our emotions, of our life.
good read!