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[C]hronological prestige is tenacious: once attained, it can't be shed; it increased moment by moment, day by day, pressing its honours on you until you are lavishly, overly endowed with them. Until you literally sink under them.

Source: The Bay of Noon, ch. 1, 1970.
-- Shirley Hazzard, (Jan 30 1931-2016), Australian novelist; She is best known for The Transit of Venus, 1980 and The Evening of the Holiday, 1965.

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