People
think that they live life as a moving dot traveling from the Past into the
Future, with memory streaming out behind them like some kind of mental cometary
tail. But memory spreads out in front as
well as behind. It’s just that most
humans aren’t good at dealing with it, and so it arrives as premonitions,
forebodings, intuitions, and hunches.
Witches are good at dealing
with it, and to suddenly find a blank where the tendrils of the future should
be has much the same effect on a witch as emerging from a cloud bank and seeing
a team of sherpas looking down on him does on an airline pilot.
(from Lords and
Ladies by Terry Pratchett)
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