Status Updates From The Dispossessed

"we think that time 'passes', flows past us; but what if it is we who move forward, from past to future, always discovering the new? It would be a little like reading a book(...) so the universe would be a very great book, and we would be very small readers."

I... hm. That's a way to describe it.

"But it's all just history. Things like that couldn't happen now!"

Ah, the subtle touch of foreshadowing.