Mind Webs - Garden Of Time
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Mind Webs - Garden Of Time

C1AdvancedNovember 12, 202626 min
  • Documentary
  • Fiction & stories

A surreal sci-fi series exploring speculative concepts, dreams, and philosophical what-ifs. Each episode is a cerebral journey into the mind’s deepest questions. This episode includes AI-generated content.

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The I'm going to be a little bit more Welcome to a half hour of Mindways, short stories from the worlds of speculative fiction. This story comes from the 12th series of the best from fantasy and science fiction, edited

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by Avram Davidson. The story's title is The Garden of Time by J.G. Ballard. Toward evening when the great shadow of the Palladian villa filled the terrace, Count Axel left his library and walked down the wide rococo steps among the thyme flowers.

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A tall and perious figure in a black velvet jacket, a gold type in glinting below his George V beard, cane held stiffly in a white gloved hand. The count surveyed the exquisite crystal flowers without emotion. Listening to the sounds of his wife's harpsichord as she played a Mozart rondo in the music

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