At the family meeting that night, Yoeli had explained to them all that no, they couldn’t send out pictures of Tovi. That was off limits for Gedalya
“How do we know that time passes?”
Nechami’s about to enter the building when suddenly Ruti materializes right behind her. Who is letting this woman wander around at this time of night?
“Entropy,” Ruti answers her own question. “Light and sound waves spread out. Chemical changes take place in the brain. Why? You call them memories, don’t you? But why? Just because?”
“Time passes because that’s what time does,” Nechami answers, trying once again, in vain, to have a rational exchange with this woman.
“No!” Ruti is happily triumphant, like a little girl. “The trajectory of time is dynamic. The future already happened. We’re getting younger all the time. Maybe. And therefore, I say everything is fine. We forget what we knew before.”
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