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Migration can be triggered by the angle of sunlight, indicating a change in season, temperature, plant life, and food supply. Female monarchs lay eggs along the route. Every history has more than one thread, each thread a story of division. The journey takes four thousand eight hundred and thirty miles, more than the length of this country. The monarchs that fly south will not make it back north. Each departure, then, is final. Only their children return; only the future revisits the past. What is a country but a borderless sentence, a life?
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong
One reason for this demeaning superficiality is the disorganization of time. Time’s arrow is broken; it has no trajectory in a continually reengineered, routine-hating, short-term political economy.
The Corrosion of Character
Richard Sennett
Remaining neutral has always been a game outside of time. I don’t dance to your time—for a certain time, at least. But I can measure it out for you, if you’re willing to pay, I’ll time it with a stopwatch (Swiss-made, of course) and I’ll sell you clocks, I’ll guard your paintings, rings, diamonds, and all your baggage, while you’re off playing or fighting. No objection could be made to that.
Time Shelter
Georgi Gospodinov
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