• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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        9 months ago

        “Anything that happens, happens. Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen. Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again. It doesn’t necessarily do it in chronological order, though.”

        (Yes, I know that’s from a different book in the series.)

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      9 months ago

      I would never! unless you were already having been going to do that! and, in latin, there’s a tense for that: future imperfect (for referring to things that might have been)!