Thomasina: When you stir your rice pudding, Septimus, the spoonful of jam spreads itself round making red trails like the picture of a meteor in my astronomical atlas. But if you stir backward, the jam will not come together again. Indeed, the pudding does not notice and continues to turn pink just as before. Do you think this is odd?
Sepitimus: No.
Thomasina: Well, I do. You cannot stir things apart.
-Tom Stoppard, Arcadia
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