The Weird Combination Of Fixity And Change

And it
was this
that
awed him--
the weird
combination
of fixity
and change,
the terrible
moment of
immobility
stamped with
eternity
in which,
passing life
at great speed,
both the
observer
and the
observed
seem frozen
in time.
--Thomas Wolfe (from "Look Homeward, Angel")