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Man cannot call the brimming instant back; time's an affair of instants spun to days; if man must make an instant gold, or black, let him, he may; but time must go his ways. life may be duller for an instant's blaze. life's an affair of instants spun to years, instants are only cause of all these tears.
-John Masefield
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Man Cannot Call The Brimming Instant Back;

John Masefield
Man cannot call the brimming instant back; time's an affair of instants spun to days; if man must make an instant gold, or black, let him, he may; but time must go his ways. life may be duller for an instant's blaze. life's an affair of instants spun to years, instants are only cause of all these tears.
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What is an "instant" death anyway? how long is an instant? is it one second? ten? the pain of those seconds must have been awful as her heart burst and her lungs collapsed and there was no air and no blood to her brain and only raw panic. what the hell is instant? nothing is instant. instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. i doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous.
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