The time would not pass. Somebody was playing with the clocks, and not only the electronic clocks but … - Kurt Vonnegut

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Sometimes, God uses difficult people, like sandpaper, to rub the rough edges off us.

Kurt Vonnegut

The time would not pass. Somebody was playing with the clocks, and not only the electronic clocks but the wind-up kind too. The second hand on my watch would twitch once, and a year would pass, and then it would twitch again. There was nothing I could do about it. As an Earthling I had to believe whatever clocks said -and calendars.

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