A Tale for the Time Being: A Novel (ALA Notable Books for Adults)

curmudgeonly

“Flotsam

“Tadaima . . . ,” I called. Have I mentioned tadaima? Tadaima means “just now,” and it’s what you say when you come in the door to your home. Just now. Here I am.

otaku

In Japan, some words have kotodama,56 which are spirits that live inside a word and give it a special power.

Life is fleeting! Don’t waste a single moment of your precious life! Wake up now! And now! And now!

cloying,

Both life and death manifest in every moment of existence. Our human body appears and disappears moment by moment, without cease, and this ceaseless arising and passing away is what we experience as time and being. They are not separate. They are one thing, and in even a fraction of a second, we have the opportunity to choose, and to turn the cours

Time itself is being, he wrote, and all being is time . . . In essence, everything in the entire universe is intimately linked with each other as moments in time, continuous and separate.