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By Saskia Isabella Maria Korsten based upon a dialogue with Semâ Bekirović, and with technical support from Anonymous.

Time is elastic.

- Carlo Rovelli

This publication is the record of an associative dialogue between Semâ Bekirović and Saskia Isabella Maria Korsten. We started this ongoing dialogue in April 2020, during the lockdown as a response to the first wave of the SARS CoV-19 outbreak in the Netherlands. The dialogue was carried out by sending a Word file back and forth to each other, sometimes expanded with additional information via email, text messages or transcribed telephone conversations, which have found their way back into this document. It is a document that shows our reflections on, associations with and reactions to each other’s input. Along the way, some lines of thought were deleted or relocated, and others were developed further; some theoretical notions were also added to the document. With every new version, one more 'RE' was added to the title of the document. The focus of our conversation became the experience of time during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using code, Korsten transformed the dialogue into a COVID-19 clock, based on parameters gathered from the variables of the pandemic and coupled with variables for time perception while reading the publication. 'Time is elastic,' is what Carlo Rovelli says in The Order of Time, and this is exactly what we concluded from our conversations.