Do Lord Remember Me, 1984From p. 101: "Since the stroke he had begun walking across the landscape of the past and the more he walked, the further away its horizon. The past seemed larger now than the future had appeared when he was young and possibility was all and the world was all possibility, even for one as black as him. "Why was the realm of the past vaster than the future's sphere had been ever? Was it because possibility was an illusion of youth, while the past (when one had earned it) was like the curved dome of nght into which he gazed in wonder and with awe? The past was an actuality whose detail and reality could not be seen and examined when it was present. Only now, when there was nothing but past, did it surface to be examined and lived truly for the first time. When past was all, present was all, and there were no uncertainties and anxieties because the resolution was known." |
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