Matter, that thing the most solid and the well-known, which you are holding in your hands and which makes up your body, is now known to be mostly empty space. Empty space and points of light. What does this say about the reality of the world?
The Hopi, an Indian tribe, have a language as sophisticate as ours but no tenses for past, present, and future. The division does not exist. What does this say about time?
Excerpts following the 'dedication' page of a Jeanette Winterson novel.
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