Time stood still because that clock that would sit and tick in the back of my left brain, that clock that helped me establish linearity between my thoughts, was now silent. Without the internal concept of relativity or the complementary brain activity that helped me navigate myself linearly, I found myself floating from isolated moment to isolated moment. “A” no longer had any relationship to “B” and “one” was no longer relative to “two.” These types of sequences required an intellectual connection that my mind could no longer perform. Even the simplest of calculations, by definition, requires
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