TimeLime: A fresh look at

1821-1881

1828 - 1910
MDCCC

my favorite lit

1899 - 1961

1919 - ?

1922 - 1969

1914 - 1997
1926 - 1997
1825
Fyodor Dostoyevsky Leo Tolstoy
Crime and Anna Karennina
Punishment ~1866~ ~1877~

1975
18 Ernest Hemmingway J.D. Salinger Allen Ginsberg Jack Kerouac William S. Burroughs
75 The Sun also Rises Catcher in Howl On the Road Naked Lunch
the Rye

M
C ~1927~ ~1951~ ~1956~ ~1957~ ~1959~

1925

1920 - 1994
1923 - 1999

1937 - 2005
19
25
Joseph Heller Hunter S. Thompson Charles Bukowski
Catch-22 Fear & Loathing Love is a Dog
in Las Vegas From Hell
1875
~1961~ ~1971~ ~1977~

1952 - 2001

1948 - ?
Douglas Adams William Gibson
1825 Hitchhiker’s Guide Neuromancer

1975
to the Galaxy
~1979~ ~1984~

1935 - ?
1922 - ?
Howard Zinn Donald Norman
A People’s History Design of
1975
1925
1875
1825

MM of the U.S. Everyday Things

~1980~ ~1998~
 TimeLime: Amyfresh look at

1821-1881

1828 - 1910
MDCCC
favorite lit

1899 - 1961

1919 - ?

1922 - 1969

1914 - 1997
1926 - 1997
1825
Fyodor Dostoyevsky Leo Tolstoy
Crime and Anna Karennina
Punishment ~1866~ ~1877~

1975
18 Ernest Hemmingway J.D. Salinger Allen Ginsberg Jack Kerouac William S. Burroughs
75 The Sun also Rises Catcher in Howl On the Road Naked Lunch
the Rye

M
C ~1927~ ~1951~ ~1956~ ~1957~ ~1959~

1925

1920 - 1994
1923 - 1999

1937 - 2005
19
25
Joseph Heller Hunter S. Thompson Charles Bukowski
Catch-22 Fear & Loathing Love is a Dog
in Las Vegas From Hell
1875
~1961~ ~1971~ ~1977~

1952 - 2001

1948 - ?
Douglas Adams William Gibson
1825 Hitchhiker’s Guide Neuromancer

1975
to the Galaxy
~1979~ ~1984~

1935 - ?
1922 - ?
Howard Zinn Donald Norman
A People’s History Design of
1975
1925
1875
1825

MM of the U.S. Everyday Things

~1980~ ~1998~

The timeline (timeLime) is a bit strange, but i saw this as an opportunity to see if I could spot any
trends in my fifteen books project. the main one that became clear was an overabundance of
“Beat” Generation, and other basic categories. I grouped the books by color/genre and spatially,
and noticed that all but one or two fit into the basic eras and areas.

You’ll also note the presence of some rather chaotic looking lines near the bottom of the arch.
These are not random, but represent the authors lifespan. So each line shows, at a
glance, how long each one lived (note that the time scale follows both the length of the arc
[MDCC = 1800, MM = 2000], and also the horizontal and vertical). This allowed me to place the
books not only in ranges along the arch, but show roughly where in their life they wrote the
book that I included. For instance, J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye was written when he was in
his 20’s, but he continues to live today. The straight green line entangled with the line connecting
the lime epoch to his portrait shows this.