When one [missing fragment] in uncommon ways, it becomes clear that each interval contains the others in some accessible sense. Each day has, for example, a moment like a birthday, a moment which is deeply quiet, a moment of insight, of terror, of wonder… each day has the features of a year in miniature, if one is seeing them in with the slowest eye. Each moment an hour. Each hour a day… each day… a new eternity… in miniature… (for this is the nature of time)…

— an a i