Many people use the time ‘between the years’ to reflect and take stock. However, science expert Christian Mähr from “Krone” doesn’t think much about it – and recommends taking a look at the Old Testament.
Of course you know what is meant by ‘between the years’ – the period between Christmas and New Year. It’s a strange formulation. Because it’s actually as wrong as it can be: ‘Between the Years’ is nothing. On the straight line that we usually imagine as ‘time’, the transition from one year to the next is just a point, as in geometry – and not the more or less round spot that we mark with a pencil on paper, but an ‘ideal’ point without expansion. There is no room for anything, no space and no duration. So where does this strange expression come from? “Between the Years” comes from an era when time itself was not something that was measured with today’s precision, but had a different quality – namely when it was not so much how long it lasted, but whether it was the right time.
Source: Krone
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