children, childhood timeless. present. Everything present tense. cours — Ian McEwan, Child Time

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For children, childhood is timeless. It is always the present. Everything is in the present tense. Of course, they have memories. Of course, time shifts a little for them and Christmas comes round in the end. But they don’t feel it. Today is what they feel, and when they say ��?When I grow up,’ there is always an edge of disbelief—how could they ever be other than what they are?

Ian McEwan, The Child in Time

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