on ritual gathering habits of magical creatures experiencing the passage of time

We’ll never get the upper hand in our relationship with the moments of our lives because we are nothing but those moments. To “master” them would first entail getting outside of them, splitting off from them. But where would we go? “Time is the substance I am made of,” writes Jorge Luis Borges. “Time is a river that sweeps me along, but I am the... See more

de·cou·ple

/dēˈkəpəl/

verb

separate, disengage, or dissociate (something) from something else.

"the mountings effectively decouple movements of the engine from those of the wheels"


• make the interaction between (electrical components) so weak that there is little transfer of energy between them, especially to remove unwanted AC distortion or oscillations

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