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"Wretched as was the space they crouched in, it was nevertheless blank where a past did not haunt nor a future beckon. Women of and for men, in those few moments they were neither. And when finally the lamp died, swaddling them in black, for a long time . . . they did not stir. For them, unable to see the sky, time became simply the running sea, unmarked, eternal and of no matter."