I suppose it means that the present exists only because the future turns into the past.″
She looked at Professor Hora with dawning amazement. ″Yes, it's true! I'd never looked at it like that before.
If it is true, though, there's really no such thing as the present, only past and future.
Take this moment, for instance: by the time I talk about it, it's already in the past.
'You cannot stand back and observe number three, for one of the others is all you will see...' I understand what that means now.
I understand the rest, too, because you could be forgiven for thinking there was only one brother - the present, I mean -
or only the past or the future. Or none of them at all, because each of them exists only when the others do.
Golly, it's enough to make your head spin!″ ″But the riddle isn't finished yet,″ said the professor.
″What's this kingdom the brothers all rule together - the one they themselves are?″ Momo looked baffled.
What could it be? What did past, present and future amount to, all lumped together?
She gazed around the great hall, with its thousands upon thousands of clocks. Suddenly her face lit up.
″Time!″ she cried, clapping her hands and skipping for joy. ″That's what it is: time!″
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