“To jump over centuries in one step is impossible. Jump too high or far, you’ll be way too late.”

— Dejan Stojanovic , book Circling: 1978-1987

”In the Silence of the Century,” p. 60
Circling: 1978-1987 (1993), Sequence: “A Warden with No Keys”

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