“Tell me – do you feel like you’re losing time?”
He didn’t answer.
“Sure you do. Everyone does. At two o’clock you sit down to read a book and then, what do you know, it’s five in the afternoon and you’re only two pages further in. Perhaps, as you walk home through familiar streets, you grow distracted, and when next you wrench your concentration back to where you’re going you find you’re already there but the hour is late – so much later than you think. A call logged on your phone you don’t remember making; perhaps your pocket dialled it as you leaned against the table. A waiting room where the magazines are three years old and you can’t be bothered but, oh my! The time has flown and you don’t quite know why. All we need are a few seconds. To give my wallet to a woman I do not know. To kiss a stranger, make a telephone call, spit in the face of the man I love, punch a policeman, push a traveller in front of a train. To give an order in a voice known for its authority. I can change your life in less than ten seconds. And when it’s done, all you will be able to say as you stand before a jury of your peers is… you don’t know what came over you. So tell me. Have you been losing time?”
— Another brilliant book by [a:Claire North|7210024|Claire North|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1440105009p2/7210024.jpg]! They should turn her books into movies! Her books are excruciatingly slow-paced but really really good and clever! I am in love.