“When you stir your rice pudding, Septimus, the spoonful of jam spreads itself round making red trails like the picture of a meteor in my astronomical atlas. But if you stir backwards, the jam will not come together again. Indeed, the pudding does not notice and continues to turn pink just as before. Do you think this is odd?”
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“Is imagination dependent upon experience, or is experience influenced by imagination?”
“No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China's behavior overnight.”
“If you remembered somebody was as real as yourself, how could you kill anybody?”