The written version of events took significantly longer to read than the lived event. After all, in writing, something can last for paragraphs of taste and touch and feeling while the mind of the character strives with all her might to process said event before moving on to the next instant, when she stops kissing the villain and draws her hand back and punches him in the nose.
Of course, the opposite can also be said to be true. After all, today I spent an eternal ten hours on a road trip which can be captured in a phrase. There's something magic about written time. That's why we must take care as we write lest all things become one and the earth disappear into a singularity, probably started deep in the bowels of a library.
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