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Time is the continuous loop, the snakeskin with scales endlessly overlapping without beginning or end, or time is an ascending spiral if you will, like a child's toy Slinky.

Annie Dillard

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Annie Dillard
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 30
Author
Essayist
Novelist
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University Teacher
Writer
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Annie Dillard Doak
Children
Endlessly
Slinky
Time
Continuous
Slinkies
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Overlapping
Scales
Ascending
Beginning
Loop
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Spiral
Ends
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