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Justin Almquist: The Speed of Dark

How fast does dark actually go anyway? It's light that makes the most common and obvious metaphors for speed, after all. Then again, as the great Terry Pratchett wrote: no matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first and is waiting for it." Shadows simply grow in a different way entirely--this movement is more the subtle kind that creeps through the cracks, no matter what you do, with the unhurried weight of inevitability behind ...
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