I'm not afraid because I can only imagine nothingness as rather quiet. - Sten Nadolny

The spirit of history can't be caught in pictures. ...History, seriously pursued, belongs in the realm of uncertainty. A picture is a certainty.

How did Tom get there? Again, a piece of time had dropped out.

If he could just stay there and gaze upon the land like a stone, whole centuries long, while grassy plains became forests and swamps turned into villages or tilled land. ...He'd be recognized as human only when he stirred.