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While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.

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I think e-mail is representative of our fast food mentality in the United States, where everything has gotten faster and faster, and we're required to...

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I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing. I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.

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When a traveler from the future must talk, he does not talk but whimpers. He whispers tortured sounds. He is agonized. For if he makes the slightest a...

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And at the place where time stands still, one sees lovers kissing in the shadows of buildings, in a frozen embrace that will never let go. The loved o...

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But what is the past? Could it be, the firmness of the past is just illusion? Could the past be a kaleidoscope, a pattern of images that shift with ea...