No, comes the response. Time alive is always there. We had in fact to think of ourselves linked forward and backward along these circular or spiral time tracks, still in communication, through our deepest feelings, with every part of our lives. Hooked up to what Joseph Campbell said in The Power of Myth , this thinking made singular sense to me. Asked about eternity, Campbell said that eternity has nothing to do with everlastingness.
Sleep takes about eight hours out of the twenty-four, food about two more.
But emotional communion is also independent of time. My acquaintance had not answered my question about what he did with his eternally present feelings. But my book friends have. You make things come alive, take on significance, point somewhere instead of killing and burying them.