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ently. It was then discovered by the astronomer Roemer 

 that what is seen now cannot be placed on the instant 

 Now. (In ordinary parlance — light takes time to travel.) 

 That was really a blow to the whole system of world- 

 wide instants, which were specially invented to accommo- 

 date these events. We had been mixing up two distinct 



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events; there was the original event somewhere out in 

 the external world and there was a second event, viz. 

 the seeing by us of the first event. The second event 

 was in our bodies Here-Now; the first event was neither 

 Here nor Now. The experience accordingly gives no 

 indication of a Now which is not Here; and we might 



