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Maybe I should have clarified that I am explicitly disagreeing with Everard when he reflects that:
"We can have never been, ourselves and the whole world that begot us. It's a perishing more absolute than death." (p. 679)
Everyone who is born lives and dies in a particular timeline whether or not that timeline is deleted. Everyone who dies has lived. Everyone whose timeline is deleted has lived in that timeline. There is no moment within the timeline when they cease to exist. The entire timeline ceases to exist (recedes into the past) in a second temporal dimension. On the other hand, if a timeline has never existed, then it has never ceased to exist.
In The Shield Of Time, one character asks how deletion is supposed to differ from ordinary death.
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