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Time-lapse photography offers odd pleasures: Gaudy flowers blooming in a second, skyscrapers flinging them selves upward in a half a minute. Reading someone\u2019s life in one of these huge chronicle diaries can be a little like watching it that way: you go through a year in maybe an hour or two. But the effects aren\u2019t so amusing as they are with the flower and the skyscraper. Ye gods, you ask yourself how many times can someone have breakfast? In fact, the diarist doesn\u2019t eat it any more often than you do; it\u2019s just that recording it is his tic, and by reading so much of his book at once you\u2019ve got to down a couple of hundred eggs in a sitting. Life from this vantage, seems even more repetitive than it is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n