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Being late was a special kind of modern suffering...

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Being late was a special kind of modern suffering, with blended elements of rising tension, self-blame, self-pity, misanthropy and a yearning for what could not be had outside theoretical physics - time reversal.

Ian McEwan (in Solar)

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