What he disagrees with is the idea that events occur in a fixed sequence - instead, he sees them as forming a complex network. Rovelli agrees that events have duration. They crowd around chaotically, like the Italians. The events of the world do not form an orderly queue, like the English. On the contrary, it implies a world in which change is ubiquitous, without being order by Father Time without innumerable events being necessarily distributed in good order, or along the single Newtonian timeline or according to Einstein's elegant geometry. The absence of the quantity 'time' in the fundamental equations does not imply a world that is frozen and immobile. I cannot find the exact words that you quote in Rovelli's book, but a similar phrase occurs near the beginning of Chapter 6 "The World is Made of Events not Things".
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