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#+BEGIN_QUOTE
-"The explanation is obvious. The Garden of Forking Paths is a picture, incomplete
-yet not false, of the universe such as Ts'ui Pen conceived it to be. Differing from
+"...Differing from
Newton and Schopenhauer, your ancestor did not think of time as absolute and
uniform. He believed in an infinite series of times, in a dizzily growing, ever spreading
network of diverging, converging and parallel times. This web of time - the strands of
which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect or ignore each other through the
centuries - embraces every possibility. We do not exist in most of them. In some
you exist and not I, while in others I do, and you do not, and in yet others both of us
-exist. In this one, in which chance has favored me, you have come to my gate. In
-another, you, crossing the garden, have found me dead. In yet another, I say these
-very same words, but am an error, a phantom."
+exist."
- Garden of Forking Paths, Borges
#+END_QUOTE