• The belief that time is a linear, directed sequence running from A to B is a modern illusion. In fact, it can also go from B to A, the effect producing the cause.

    Umberto Eco: The belief that time is a linear, directed sequence running from A to B is a modern illusion. In fact, it can also go from B to A, the effect producing the cause.
    Umberto Eco (2007). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.210, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt