“We can only stop our watches, but not real time itself.”
Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author
“Books don't offer real escape but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.”
— David Mitchell, book Cloud Atlas
"Letters from Zedelghem"
Cloud Atlas (2004)
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