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Clifford D. Simak

And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future and no past, but an infinite number of brackets, extending either way, each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe.

Clifford D. Simak

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The author describes time not as a continuous flow with a clear past and future, but as a series of separate segments, each containing one moment or phase of the Universe. These segments extend endlessly in both directions, meaning time is made up of countless individual moments rather than a smooth progression.

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