You see, Valentin, there is no such thing as time. It's just a road, a path to travel on. Most of the world is on a train, traveling forward all the time, speeding toward death, with a set schedule and someone else in charge.

Daniel Nayeri
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In T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land," the speaker compares all of life to a train ride. He says that the only way to get through life is to follow your own set schedule and that time is not real.

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