A Tale for the Time Being: A Novel (ALA Notable Books for Adults)

that minuscule movement of my hand through space will determine the fates of all the Japanese soldiers and citizens that these same Americans (enemies, whose lives I save) may live to kill. And so on and so on, until you could even say that the very outcome of this war will be decided by a moment and a millimeter, representing the outward manifesta

Jiko says that this is an example of the time being. Sound and no-sound. Thunder and silence.

My dad wants me to apply to an international high school. He wants me to go to Canada. He’s got this thing about Canada.

he’d been stricken with a mysterious flulike illness,

Zen Master Dgen wasn’t entirely dead. Of course, he wouldn’t have been entirely alive, either. Like Schrödinger’s cat, in the quantum thought experiment, he would have been both alive and dead.

This way she wouldn’t end up with an overly compressed or accelerated sense of the girl’s life and its unfolding, nor would she run the risk of wasting too much time. She would be able to balance her reading of the diary with all the work she still needed to do on her own memoir.

The old technologies and the new, collapsing time into a paradoxical present.

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Jetsam’s