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Only when one leaves the airport behind does the moment come when one remembers that one's existence is always defined by geography; that it makes a difference whether one drives in a taxi through the streets of Beijing or rides on a boat through the waters of the Black Sea. It is at this moment that one's own situation seems almost implausible, as if it is not yet entirely embedded in the present – and even if one is aware of where one is, one is not really there, not yet. Perhaps this light absence is nothing but the attempt to create a place for the gaps in time and space – a sort opening in which all things have their place, things that one does not understand or has missed out flying with time or against it.

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