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“Time had slowed to a sluggish crawl. I walked faster, but each step plunged me deeper into the depths of still-ness. If time could pass so slowly that its passage was im-perceptible, then—is death where time stops and the self is left all alone in this space? Is death where space and the self are erased and only time continues? Where had Köichi gone to? Had he really disappeared completely?”