So that was the past. There and not there. His whole life. If nothing was real but this moment, Planck… — Kim Stanley Robinson
So that was the past. There and not there. His whole life. If nothing was real but this moment, Planck instant after Planck instant, an unimaginably thin membrane of becoming between past and future—his life—what then was it, so thin, so without any tangible past or future: a blaze of color.
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