And time goes at its own pace

There is a secret connection between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetfulness. Let’s talk about a situation that could not be more banal: a man is walking in the street. Suddenly he wants to remember something, but the memory escapes him. At this moment, mechanically, he slows his pace. On the other hand, someone tries to forget a painful incident that he has just experienced unwittingly accelerates the pace of his walk as if he wanted to quickly get away from what is, in time, still too much. close to him.
In existential mathematics this experience takes the form of two elementary equations: the degree of slowness is directly proportional to the intensity of memory; the degree of speed is directly proportional to the intensity of forgetfulness.

Milan Kundera, La Lenteur (The Slowness)