The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of fiction. (Penelope Lively)

The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of fiction.

Penelope Lively

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