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Jaromir Hladik, awaiting execution at dawn, prayed for a year to finish his play. God stopped time — the bee's shadow frozen on the stone, the drop of rain still on his cheek — and gave him the interval between the order and the volley.
He used it. The play was finished. At 9:02, the world started again.
"He was not working for posterity or even for God, whose literary tastes were unknown to him."
That sentence is the center of the story. And maybe the center of something else.
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