Seasons returned year after year, never leaving that circle.

Much like the spirals in your bed spring, the cycles may repeat but not be confined two-dimensionally.

For the Aymara people living in the Andes, the past lies ahead and the future lies behind. Perhaps the way to release the tension from the apparent differences in viewing time would be to have the Aymaran people cheerfully viewing their times past with their eyes in the fronts of their heads, while...

I'd rather see that view as a spiral (imagine an infinite bedspring), because it is not the same worlds that is re-created, but looking at the spiral from its bottom or top, it appears circular. Which would be in effect the same as a linear view of time (albeit spiralling around an axis)—unless you...

But then, of course, since we can live in neither the past nor the future but only “the present”, which has no dimension at all, we don’t exist…