Abstract
Zora Neale Hurston's short story presents a practicable model for generating the experience of duration or time, as conceived by Henri Bergson and further developed by Gaston Bachelard. The protagonist of the story demonstrates not only the nature and benefits of pure-time experience, but also the disposition and behaviors necessary to its initiation. This chapter probes evolutionary implications for self-generated shifts in temporal experience, initially in willful invocation of passive resistance to re-direct aggression back upon its originator and, in a larger context, in the power that people may gather when they demand their right to make their own time and hence, their own decisions. The example of Delia Jones in works most powerfully, as a model of distinctively non-reactionary discontinuous Bergsonism. Keywords:Bergsonism; Delia Jones; duration; Gaston Bachelard; Henri Bergson; pure time; Sweat ; Zora Neale Hurston
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