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“Before the railways were built, what took the place of stations in people's dreams?”

“[…] This separation allows us, the storytellers, the power of knowing the whole, Yet, equally, this separation renders us powerless: we cannot control our characters, after the narration has begun. (…)
The time, and therefore the story, belongs to them. Yet the meaning of the story, what makes it worthy of being told, is what we can see and what inspires us because we are beyond its time.”