Source: 1880s, Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War (1885), p. 122
“And now each second was as long as all the time before.”
Prologue (p. 4).
A Fire Upon the Deep (1992)
Context: The hours came to minutes, the minutes to seconds. And now each second was as long as all the time before.
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