"Actions follow each other, and only exist in relation to each other, and the actions of men are consecutive and indivisible. In time and in space, all that we are belongs to everyone else, those that went before us and those who will come after us. And decade-pacing time, now vaulting the centuries, still binds grave and womb into oneness; yesterday has prepared tomorrow, and there is no escape, even if the landscape is painted on this wall." ~ The Crippled Tree (Han Suyin)