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“There’s a capacity for appetite” Samuel said, “that a whole heaven and earth of cake can’t satisfy.”

“Time interval is a strange and contradictory matter in the mind … It is the dull eventless times that have no duration whatever. A time splashed with interest, wounded with tragedy, crevassed with joy - that’s the time that seems long in the memory. Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all.” Bar.