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Date Posted: Wed, February 02 2022, 5:22:20
Author: LadyDuBois
Subject: QOTD for Wednesday, Feb 2, 2022. The following is from "The Space Between" written by Diana Gabaldon All Rights Reserved




Nearly twilight, and the rats were still dead. The comte heard the bells of Notre Dame calling sept and glanced at his pocket watch. The bells were two minutes before their time, and he frowned. He didn’t like sloppiness. He stood up and stretched himself, groaning as his spine cracked like the ragged volley of a firing squad. No doubt about it, he was aging, and the thought sent a chill through him.

If. If he could find the way forward, then perhaps … but you never knew, that was the devil of it. For a little while, he’d thought—hoped—that traveling back in time stopped the process of aging. That initially seemed logical, like rewinding a clock. But, then again, it wasn’t logical, because he’d always gone back farther than his own lifetime. Only once he’d tried to go back just a few years, to his early twenties. That was a mistake, and he still shivered at the memory.

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[> I forgot that last line. I wonder if we’ll find out what happened. Since he keeps showing up I think he’s important to the story so maybe we’ll see. -- Kathy in PA, Wed, February 02 2022, 6:22:49


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[> We know you can't enter your own timeline. Roger got thrown back and on fire. -- kgp, Wed, February 02 2022, 8:18:09


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[> This story was intriguing and makes the hair on my arms stand up. As more of the Conte and Master Raymond enfolds, it would likely make a good spooky TV series. -- DianaH, Wed, February 02 2022, 10:05:41


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