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Article: It's about time.
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- Queen's Quarterly
- Article date:
- March 22, 2002
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Throughout history, human beings have found that the more we strive to understand the nature of time, the more wrinkles and eddies and wormholes appear in its fabric. When, over the centuries, the signs of the Zodiac stubbornly refused to stay in their assigned places, and insisted on creeping ever so slowly into the space of their neighbouring constellations, the ancient astrologers must have realized that our relationship to this eternally tricky phenomenon would forever give us a hard time.
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