It seemed like a common experience to her. She could not imagine that anything about the proceeding day, week, month, or year had not been lived a million times before.
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The conference, in the grand tradition of generally desk bound worthies, was being held in a simultaneously exotic and yet comfortably familiar mountain top retreat.
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As it often does, Monday came the next morning. She worked at a government job, designing contracts for civil engineering projects. Damns, weirs, and culverts occupied her days.
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I ask the reader to consider whether I should be put to the chair, the gallows, the guillotine, or any of the myriad forms of death we have devised during our stewardship of this world.
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Herotocesia stood, back to the wall, as the monk approached. Chanting rang through her head, “was that coming from the monk” she thought, “No, somewhere else, it always comes from somewhere else”. He was less than a meter away when he ceased is approach, turned and left the cell.
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We intend to tell you a story, not an interesting story, in fact a quite banal story. We intend to relate the story of a Thursday for Wallace. Do not be tempted to think that this was a formative, important, memorable, remarkable, or even notable Thursday. No, this was a Thursday in Wallace’s life which he will remember exactly 3 times,
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The man hung his feet over the escarpment, looking, for all the world, as one contented with life. The bird that wasn't a bird had watched him climb the slope earlier in the day, watched as he scrambled up the ridge line, and watched as he took his ultimate position looking down over the town below.
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Canonically, the universe began as an fluid of infinitesimal density. You can prove this to yourself through a simple thought experiment.
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The watchmaker peered through his lense, "mumm, yes, you see what you have here" he said. Hall stood, or sat, he could not pin down his exact state, curious. The watchmaker pulled a fine metal pin from his work belt and began to adjust gears and springs within the time piece.
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He sat at the computer, contemplating, worrying, planning. It was not that the ultimate result could be changed by any decision he made today, either the instigation would come now or latter, but it would come.
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A shell detonated somewhere to his left. He winced at the fresh memory of the unnamed man from moments earlier, the other soldier’s chest struck with one of the high powered armor piercing rounds, exploding over the fox hole.
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The Pekinolian interdisciplinary council on temporal study regrets to inform you that your request (Application number: A-65917301-9704) has not been chosen for the current spin cycle’s funding round. The application committee …
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Do not allow the ways of the old sciences to bias you in the modern pursuit of absolute truth the man at the lectern said Their self-indulgent fantasy of predicting the behavior of the universe lead to only suffering, a murmur of agreement raced towards the back of the auditorium. The city itself has signaled it would be diligently observing this lecture; the entire Corpus Civis would be watching this lecture.
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John Noris, associate professor of applied computer science and reckoned by of some students and esteemed colleagues to hold a chaired professorship of applied culinary science, sits in front of the terminal, passing the time with finger games on his phone. Dressed in an elegantly out of fashion suit, he waits for the arrival of a colleague of his.
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Efra was born on Unatu, a comparatively young world; consequently, the intellectual offerings of its burgeoning institutions could not hope to satiate her curiosity. She therefore left that planet on flight "For the Betterment of the Bees : Una-Ino", flung off the surface in a wave of distorted space and compressed time. When her ship was latter entangled in the catch well of Inolian…
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The number of ways I saw which could lead to the end a civilization were staggering. Tools existed to allow one to destroy themselves. Solar system were populated with a multitude of hazards that could spell their demise. The stars which facilitated life on their satellites inevitably died. All these fates could be avoided however.
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