eternities

She stares at him for a few seconds that feel like eternities, then blinks a few times and seems to come back to herself.

“The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness,” wrote Vladimir Nabokov.

I think back on how those long, slow last days with Tessa, free from distractions at work or worry about bills, seemed to last eternities.

Not to mention alarming metaphysical innovations like wrathful gods, devils and eternities of punishment.

In an instant, a movie I adored for its visual eternities, for its genius with heft and ease, tarnish and gleam, had found another level: liturgical prophecy.