Ratcatcher
“Instead, what people regarded as units of time – minutes, seconds, moments or instants – were really quantum states that happened to be stacked up alongside one another in space (which did exist, provably), like the infinitesimally altered series of pictures that when run together tricked the human eye and became a cartoon.
He’d found the concept a tricky one to get to grips with. He came close to grasping it during the events that followed Elle’s cry. The free flow of time became a series ...of snapshot images that engrained themselves on his memory.
In the first picture, the two men immediately in front of him were bracing their bent legs and sighting horizontally down their arms, their eyes widened slightly, ready to fire imminently; but one of the men had his gaze fixed not on Purkiss’s face but on a point past his left shoulder.
In the next picture Purkiss, whose head was now turned slightly to the left, was looking at a human figure in the sparse trees over to his left, a black-clad man with a rifle gripped in his hands, not Kendrick.MoreLess
He’d found the concept a tricky one to get to grips with. He came close to grasping it during the events that followed Elle’s cry. The free flow of time became a series ...of snapshot images that engrained themselves on his memory.
In the first picture, the two men immediately in front of him were bracing their bent legs and sighting horizontally down their arms, their eyes widened slightly, ready to fire imminently; but one of the men had his gaze fixed not on Purkiss’s face but on a point past his left shoulder.
In the next picture Purkiss, whose head was now turned slightly to the left, was looking at a human figure in the sparse trees over to his left, a black-clad man with a rifle gripped in his hands, not Kendrick.MoreLess
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