"I would like to erase the consequences of certain events and restore and initial condition. But every moment of my life brings with an accumulation of new facts, and each of these new facts brings with its consequences: so the more I seek to return to the zero moment from which I set out, the further I move away from it: though all my actions are bent on erasing the consequences of previous actions and though I manage to achieve appreciable results in this erasure, enough to open my heart to hopes of immediate relief, I must, however bear in mind that my every move to erase previous events provokes rain of new events which complicate the situation was than before and which I will then in their turn have to erase. Therefore I must calculate carefully every move so as to achieve the maximum erasure with the minimum of recomplication."
by Italo Calvino "If on a winters night a traveller"
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