Teju Cole
..but in the dark spaces between the dead, shining stars, were stars I could not see, stars that still existed, and were giving out light that hadn't reached me yet, stars no living and giving out light but present to me only as blank interstices. Their light would arrive on earth eventually, long after I and my whole generation and the generation after me slipped out of time, perhaps long after the human race itself was extinguished. To look into these dark spaces was to have a direct glimpse of the future.