Time expands and contracts. When it expands, it’s like pitch: it folds…

Banana Yoshimoto
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Time expands and contracts. When it expands, it’s like pitch: it folds people in its arms and holds them forever in its embrace. It doesn’t let us go so easily. Sometimes you go back again to the place you’ve just come from, stop and close your eyes, and realize that not a second has passed, and time just leaves you there, stranded, in the darkness ✨ Banana Yoshimoto (2006). Hardboiled: & Hard Luck, p.24, Grove Press
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