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i’ve been trying to read this since august…. i’m determined to win

Masturbacja kalmarem

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Disarming an idealist was easy. One only needed to ask why the idealist was not on the front line of the particular battle he had chosen. The question was one of commitment[…]

[…] cont 199. But while science fiction imagined time travelers as moving forward or backward in time, this timepiece demonstrated a different chronology. The open secret of the clock, naked for all to see, was that we were only going in circles.” (War - winning and losing - going in circles)

199 (vietnam shaped clock set to Saigon time, 14hrs off) “Refugee, exile, immigrant— whatever species of displaced human we were, we did not simply live in 2 cultures, as celebrants of the great American melting pot imagined. Displaced people also lived in 2 time zones, the here and the there, the present and the past, being as we were reluctant time travelers. [… cont]

Some craftsman in exile had understood that this was exactly the timepiece his refugee countrymen desired. We were displaced persons, but it was time more than space that defined us. While the distance to return to our lost country was far but finite, the # of years it would take to close that distance was potentially infinite. Thus, for displaced people, the 1st question was always about time: When can I return?

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