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120 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1995
Nothing felt like happening, nothing, nothing. The stream of time slipped between the houses, rolled through the market square, and passed the two benches set crosswise. It flowed over the ruins of the town-hall tower, which over the past two hundred years it had managed to erode, infect with rot, and wash clean of plaster, and which it would certainly overcome in the end, like a flood carries away things that are light, unnecessary, and forgotten. Time also flowed from the sky, poured out like slow molasses and sloshed against the pavement's metallic shell. But neither its stream nor a single splash could manage to pull any greater event behind it.