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Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Strange Cases of Missing Time

Jason Offutt examines several strange cases of missing time, including his own.
This event occurred to me at least twelve years ago, and I still don’t know what happened.
 
Driving home from a Friday night shift at the newspaper, my car’s cruise control set on 55 mph, I drove by a road sign I’ve driven by hundreds of times. It reads, “Orrick: 5 Miles.” Just as I went by, the Rolling Stones “Gimme Shelter” came on the radio.

Perfect. I lived in Orrick, Missouri, at the time, and “Gimme Shelter” was not only my favorite Rolling Stones tune, it was also four minutes, thirty-seven seconds long, which would last me all the way home.

Then my drive fell out of reality. Read more

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