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It wasn’t that time stopped in the library. It was as if it were captured here, collected here, and in all libraries—and not only my time, my life, but all human time as well. In the library, time is dammed up—not just stopped but saved.
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― Old God's Time
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― Old God's Time
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― Old God's Time
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