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“By the time you had written down what time it was, it was already later than it had been.”

“Still, I thought it was wonderful that Ivan had decided to read a Turkish-English dictionary, and that he had brought to it such a unique perspective.”

“I knew ‘midway the journey’ was supposed to mean midlife crisis. But to me it seemed that one had *always* been midway through the journey of our life, and would be maybe right up until the moment of death.”