" This essay thus ends with a rejection of linear time in favor of "messianic time.
In one portion of this essay, the author compares the adoption of the calendar to a "time lapse camera" and offers an anecdote about people firing at clock-towers during the July Revolution. This essay quotes Flaubert's statement about sadness being required in order to resuscitate Carthage in a section which chastises scholars'  identifactions with the "victors." Beginning with an anecdote about the chess-playing robot called the "Turk," this essay ultimately urges for a conception of the present as the "time of the now" as opposed to merely establishing a "casual connection between various moments" like the "beads of a rosary." This essay thus ends with a rejection of linear time in favor of "messianic time." The most remembered portion of this essay deals with of the storm of progress as represented in Klee's painting Angelus Novus. For 10 points, name this essay by Walter Benjamin examining the title academic discipline.
In one portion of this essay, the author compares the adoption of the calendar to a "time lapse camera" and offers an anecdote about people firing at clock-towers during the July Revolution.
On the {Concept} of {History} or {Theses} on the {Philosophy} of {History} [accept {Über den Begriff der Geschichte}]