I wouldn’t say that Echter wrote a story here, but all the events of Earth history have
been mashed together in his slipstream piece.
. . . and a grandmother of three writes her suicide note in the same room that
Helen is talking to her therapist, who says that the human mind is a primate one, that we
are drawn to the exciting and the new and gloss over the day to day lest we go insane in
the details, and the first mammals crawl into and from the trees
. .
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