"The fundamental unity of the Sequency and Simultaneity
points of view became plain; the concept of interval served
to connect the static and the dynamic aspect of the universe.
How could he have stared at reality for ten years and not
seen it? There would be no trouble at all in going on.
Indeed he had already gone on. He was there."
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed:
An Ambiguous Utopia (1974)
See also Joplin at the Lapin Blanc.