• JonC
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      2 years ago

      Where’s Dan Streetmentioner when you need him?

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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        2 years 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.)

    • gregorum@lemm.eeBanned from community
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      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)!