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Dana Jumper's avatar

"Time is a gentleman" and "Truth is the daughter of time." In my soldier days, we just said "Embrace the suck" when we had to endure unpleasantness for a long time.

Imagine Solzhenitzyn if he just endured the time instead of embracing the suck. Maybe time embraced, even in solitary or suffering, brings a beautiful ending, as I'm sure the prisoner's scratching would testify and I've seen as fact in the lives of chronic sufferers that I have known.

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Naomi's avatar

It's been years and years since I read that.

Time is fluid. It has eddies and currents. Sometimes it speeds up and sometimes it doesn't seem to move at all.

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