“Your common temporal experience involves something analogous to pressure. In fact, when you become very intimate with it, you will probably begin to sense that you are being, effectively, -pushed- through time… at rates that vary according to where in your lifetime you are and the situations and contexts in which you are involved. Now the question is this: what is the force producing the pressure that propels you thus, and … can it be varied?”

— an anonymous interlocutor