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Did you ever look back at some moment in your past and have it suddenly grow so vivid that all the intervening years seemed brief, dreamlike, impersonal—the motions of a May afternoon surrendered to routine?
Did you ever look back at some moment in your past and have it suddenly grow so vivid that all the intervening years seemed brief, dreamlike, impersonal—the motions of a May afternoon surrendered to routine?
Approximate author period: c. 1962 AD · modern
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- Roger Zelazny
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- Approximate author period: c. 1962 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Roger Zelazny: documented activity in 1962. Wikidata Q295406, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q295406 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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