Privateers: Guest Scriner Isabel Allende << home >> What, you've been doing something more important?
We have our past before us—the past’s the only real thing we have, and we can learn a lot about living from it; the present is nothing but an illusion—as fast as you blink your eye it’s already part of the past; and the future—the future’s a dark hole no one can see—it may not even be there, because while we’re talking, death can come and carry us away.*
* Great liberties were taken with the original punctuation of this sentence in order to make it Scrine-compliant.
Damn, that’s still profound.