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Hour of Thinking 8 There is a blank sheet of paper again. Since an hour it will be filled with a few dozens of sentences which do not exist now anywhere. Can I say that they really do not exist, if I certainly know they will be written? Indeed, if it is inevitable and the page will filled with some words, I can claim that the words do exist now despite more than half a page is still empty. But what is the future will never happen? Recently I watched "Crash Course Literature" and in one episode there was a discussion about a famous writer (I forgot his name and the name of his book) who wrote a story about a man willing to stop the time. It was his idea-fixe. He really thought about the issue, considering it as something achievable, and sought ways for its realization... How it could be possible to live in the present without moving uninterruptedly somewhere? Would it be still living? What is the damn living? Is it willing? Let suppose that I'm here and soon I will be there -- at the end of the page -- then the place, in which I will have come, exist now. It's not the future. Yes, I know the place exists only as a possibility and there could be tons of different possible places, right? No. The first written sentence has determined the second, the second -- the third etc. If I come back in the same time-space whenwhere the page was started, I necessarily will have gone through the same way which eventually will have led to the end. I mean "this percise end."

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There is a blank sheet of paper again. Since In an hour it will be filled with a few dozens of sentences which do not exist now anywhere. Can I say that they really do not exist, if I certainly know they will be written? Indeed, if it is inevitable and the page will be filled with some words, I can claim that the words do exist now despite more than half a the page is still being empty. But what if the future will never happens? Recently I watched "Crash Course Literature" and in one episode there was a discussion about a famous writer (I forgot his name and the name of his book) who wrote a story about a man willing to stop the time. It was his idea-fixe idee-fixe. He really thought about the issue, considering it as something achievable, and sought ways for its realization...

How it could it be possible to live in the present without moving uninterruptedly somewhere? Would it still be still living? What is the damn living? [I'm not sure what this means] Is it willing? Let's suppose that I'm here and soon I will be there -- at the end of the page -- then the place, in which I will have come, exists now. It's not the future. Yes, I know the place exists only as a possibility and there could be tons of different possible places, right? No. The first written sentence has determined the second, the second -- the third etc. If I come back in the same time-space when where the page was started, I necessarily will have gone through the same way which eventually will have led to the end. I mean "this percise end."

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