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(End at 11:10 P.M. Jane’s trance had been excellent. “You don’t have to put this in,” she said, “but I feel like I do every once in a while — I really let it out — I feel relieved and ready to collapse.
(“I don’t know why, but I sometimes think that it’s a tremendous strain to do this — have these sessions, and so forth — but I’m determined to explore this reality as much as I can, to get all I can out of it. Then sometimes I think there’s nothing to it. Everyone has their hassles, so why should I have any more — or less? I really think I have less trouble than a lot of people.”
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2. Our “new” hill house is really 21 years old. It seems new to Jane and me, though — and to Seth too, we notice. Calling it new is a pretty convenient way for us to distinguish it from the much older apartment house we vacated last month. Actually, however, we’re using the word “new” to indicate our present physical and psychological states. In that sense, if the house we’ve just moved into was physically older than the one we left behind, I suppose we’d still call it new.
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“When you think that perhaps your species came from another planetary system, in time terms, then of course you are still dealing with old concepts. In your usual terms of thinking, the earth does not exist at all (emphatically) — not if you are considering it as a chunk of matter occupying a certain position in a physical cosmos. It is really futile to question whether the universe came from a big boom (again emphatically, humorously), or is constantly expanding (though in those terms I have said it continually expands, as an idea or a dream does). I am not saying the universe does not exist — only that it does not exist in the way that it seems to you.
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