extra-temporal

It's insane - as insane as the idea that the world was created by a supernatural being in seven days or six with a holiday - why would an extra-temporal being need a holiday?

Don't mention it ... (or No sex, please - we're American) Stroppy Author 2009

It's insane - as insane as the idea that the world was created by a supernatural being in seven days or six with a holiday - why would an extra-temporal being need a holiday?

Archive 2009-08-01 Stroppy Author 2009

That explained why my apprehensions on the subject of my death had ceased from the moment when I had unconsciously recognised the taste of the little madeleine because at that moment the being that I then had been was an extra-temporal being and in consequence indifferent to the vicissitudes of the future.

Time Regained 2003

Of a truth, the being within me which sensed this impression, sensed what it had in common in former days and now, sensed its extra-temporal character, a being which only appeared when through the medium of the identity of present and past, it found itself in the only setting in which it could exist and enjoy the essence of things, that is, outside Time.

Time Regained 2003

But there. was a graver reason for my pain; I discovered that des-tructive action of Time at the very moment when I wanted to elucidate, to intellectualise extra-temporal realities in a work of art.

Time Regained 2003

And remember: "The mysterious Lllidorino seem to be extra-temporal pseudo-draconian nether-beings -- but, on any close examination, they display features utterly unlike that of any ordinary extra-temporal pseudo-draconian nether-beings."

The Pokenomicon sbisson 2002

The notion of transition involves the singular extra-temporal conception of 'suddenness.'

Parmenides 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855

Again reflecting on that extra-temporal delight caused whether by the sound of the spoon or by the taste of the madeleine, I said to myself: “Was this the happiness suggested by the little phrase of the Sonata, which Swann was deceived into identifying with the pleasure of love and was not endowed to find in artistic creation; that happiness which had made me respond as to a presentiment of something more supraterrestrial still than the little phrase of the Sonata, to the red and mysterious appeal of that septet which Swann did not know, having died like so many others, before the truth, meant for them, had been revealed?”

Time Regained 2003

if, otoh, you see him improving the lives of men and women and aliens and robots from the past, present, future and extra-temporal space? it's much easier to say, 'oh, that's just what the doctor does...he improves the lives of everyone he meets.' with a wider diversity of companion, the stereotype doesn't have a chance to take hold.

Rooting the Doctor 2 2009