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We wrote that some ancient scrolls made of lead and copper that have recently come to light may reveal mysteries of ancient Christianity, but now it looks as if the only thing they reveal is a clever forgery. The covers of the books contain strange sequences of Greek letters next to depictions of a palm tree, a walled city, a crocodile and Alexander the Great. The three lines of Greek all turn out to be variants on the same two puzzling phrases: "Without grief, farewell! Abgar, also known as Eision."
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We left for an hour’s walk at a quarter of five. We went on a familiar timed route that takes one hour. When we got back, it was a quarter of seven. Neither of us has the slightest unusual memory. But it’s a walk we take two or three times a week and have for the past 5 years. The timing of it is exact to within a few minutes. So what happened to us? Ironically, I am writing a book now that involves missing time, and was working on a chapter about this very subject just before it happened. Who knows what this world really is, and who we really are? I have not the slightest idea, frankly. But it ain’t Kansas anymore, that’s for sure.
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