“Maybe the only thing that hints at a sense of Time is rhythm; not the recurrent beats of the rhythm but the gap between two such beats, the gray gap between black beats: the Tender Interval.”
― Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
― Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
“I have in my head things I may not have exactly seen, just as you who read this have me.”
― Lookout Cartridge
― Lookout Cartridge
“time cannot do to ordinary things what we timelessly do to one another.”
― The Tunnel
― The Tunnel
“When the sun was rising I doubted its value, as it set I lamented its loss.”
― The Easy Chain
― The Easy Chain
“And it's a disquieting thought that not even the past is done with, even that continues to change, as if in reality there is only one time, for everything, one time for every purpose under heaven. One single second, one single landscape, in which what happens activates and deactivates what has already happened in endless chain reactions, like the processes that take place in the brain, perhaps, where cells suddenly bloom and die away, all according to the way the winds of consciousness are blowing.”
― A Time for Everything
― A Time for Everything
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