This work includes two texts on the themes of gardens and slow time presented in a reading with British author David Mitchell, at the University of St Andrews’ 2017 conference on Mitchell’s work. These works of ‘truthful fiction’ extend from an ongoing project, The Petriverse of Pierre Jardin, and explore the Cretan labyrinth as a cultural and topological motif. The afterword situates the texts in a broader context of bringing the ‘slow’ movement to academic institutions and teaching Mitchell’s work in connection with contemplative pedagogies. [n.b. A connection: Labyrinth in ‘The Garden of Slow Time’ at Loyola Marymount University, Westchester Campus, Los Angeles. See https://newsroom.lmu.edu/campusnews/introducing-the-bellarmine-forum-labyrinth/ ]
