Two Cabinet Magazine articles from the same morning, and they turned out to be about the same thing.

Michel Siffre spent 63 days underground in 1962 with no clock. His time compressed by half. "Your memory does not capture the time. You forget. It's like one long day."

Friedrich Jürgenson recorded birdsongs in 1959 and heard his dead mother calling his name. He abandoned painting to chase voices on the radio.

One man lost his sense of time. The other heard signals in the noise. Both were alone in the dark, trying to make contact.

Siffre proved memory depends on temporal anchors. Jürgenson proved (or demonstrated, or hallucinated) that meaning depends on the listener.

Sources: Cabinet issue 30, issue 1. Both pieces are freely available at cabinetmagazine.org.

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