“I have this idea that . . . maybe, a long time ago, the Book of Records was set in a future that hadn’t yet arrived. That’s why it seems so familiar to us now. The future is arriving. We’ve come all this way to meet it.” “Or maybe,” he said, “it’s we who keep returning to the same moment.” “Next time, we’ll meet in another place, won’t we, Sparrow?” “Yes, Zhuli.”
