WE EXPERIENCE LIFE AS A CONTINUITY, AND ONLY AFTER IT FALLS… - Teju Cole

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WE EXPERIENCE LIFE AS A CONTINUITY, AND ONLY AFTER IT FALLS away, after it becomes the past, do we see its discontinuities. The past, if there is such a thing, is mostly empty space, great expanses of nothing, in which significant persons and events float.

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Teju Cole (born June 27, 1975) is a Nigerian-American writer, photographer, and art historian.

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