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61 the forMULa —From the Hebrew of Natan Zach On the blackboard in his study Time is calculated in a long formula that tends toward zero. He is disturbed. As he serves me coffee and small talk, he glances doubtfully at the formula’s end, gets up, takes an eraser, and leaves the correct solution: an empty blackboard. With an apologetic smile he returns, but we both know what has happened: Time was proven incorrect and is gone. We sit facing each other. He reads in my eyes a history of dead stars. I see the future in his transparent skull. ...

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