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All moments, past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist.
Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
“How nice—to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”
“That’s one thing Earthlings might learn to do, if they tried hard enough: Ignore the awful times, and concentrate on the good ones.”
One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters.
The news of the day, meanwhile, was being written in a ribbon of lights on a building to Billy’s back. The window reflected the news. It was about power and sports and anger and death. So it goes.
