2008-03-31 Time Is Relative

The last week or so I started to read Starlight 1 and 2. It's supposed to be a collection of science fiction short stories, and according to the blurb, they're all excellent. That's why you shouldn't judge books by their covers; they have a blurb printed on them. In other words: what I have read so far sucked. Some of it wasn't even science fiction!
However, every once in a while a good line shows up. That's why I like short stories. Or, as the blurb (correctly) stated: "Short stories are the R&D lab of science fiction." So here's a bit of text that I happen to find very poetic. It's about a young girl who gets kind of hypnotized by a mysterious alien entity or something like that. I don't know exactly because I have yet to read the end. Anyway, here it is:

The words came from nowhere into her head and the steps came from nowhere into her feet. She began to dance and was not at all surprised to find that, at the appropriate moment, someone took her outstretched hand.

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In Germany, daylight saving ended last weekend. On April 6th it'll start in New Zealand. The new time difference will be 10 hours (used to be 12). When I first came here in October it was the other way round. Must have been half a year ago. How time flies! On the other hand, it feels like I've been in the country for ages, and Kristine still isn't here yet. Time doesn't pass at all. Apparently, time is relative. Duh.

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Update: Today her visa arrived! Woot!