I could feel my ears turning red. I asked hurriedly:

"What is wrong with Summer, Wyn?"

"She lives backwards," he said. "Time is reversed for her. It isn't

only a physiological reversal. Everything goes backwards in time for

her. The future is the past to Summer, and the past is the unknown

future. She remembers the future, Don--she remembers it, because she

has seen it happen."

"That's impossible!" I exclaimed. "How can she? It hasn't happened yet!"

"To her it has," he replied. "It may upset your conception of the

future as a fluid thing of limitless possibilities, but Summer's

experience is pretty good evidence that it is as frozen and stable as

the past. As the Orientals say, what is to be will be."

Z · 第 4 / 8 题