One cannot step into the same river twice

Reggie 2022-03-24 09:03:36

18 years ago, I couldn't understand what it meant at all. I only remembered the paragraph "passengers who woke up in their sleep found that those who were not asleep on the plane disappeared". After so many years, the mention of science fiction flashed across the darkened cabin with the feared faces of middle-aged women in black clothes: they were all gone, all gone!
In fact, my memory is also wrong, there are no middle-aged women in black clothes among the people who wake up. It also happens to echo the theme of the movie: "As long as the past, all the time labels are gone, they are swallowed by monsters", which of course also includes memory.

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The Langoliers quotes

  • Bob Jenkins: Let's say that every now and then a hole appears in the stream of time. Not a time-warm. A rip. A time rip. A rip in the central fabric.

    Don Gaffney: That's the craziest thing I ever heard of!

    Craig Toomy: Amen!

    Bob Jenkins: Mr. Gaffney, the situation we're in right now, this is crazy. So let's say that such rips do occur every now and then. It would be similar to rare weather phenomenons that are reported. Upside-down tornadoes, circular rainbows, daytime starlight.

    Captain Brian Engle: The aurora borealis.

    Bob Jenkins: [Bob looks to Brian in surprise] What?

    Captain Brian Engle: There was an aurora borealis over the Mojavi Desert when we left LAX. We were supposed to fly right into it.

    Bob Jenkins: Then that's it. An auroa over the desert. That strengthens my point. If we were to fly into that, and it was a time-rip then that means we're no longer in our own time, ladies and gentlemen.

  • Don Gaffney: [listening to Jenkins' time rip theory] That's the craziest thing I've ever heard.

    Craig Toomy: Amen!