COATLICUE: You have no future.
CHRONOS: And you have no past.
COATLIQUE: That doesn’t leave us much of a present.
CHRONOS: Maybe we are doomed to being merely some “light-years” with missing tenses.
COATLIQUE: Or two inefficient memories.
CHRONOS: So this is Palenque.
COATLIQUE: Yes; as soon as it was named it ceased to exist.
CHRONOS: Do you think those overturned rocks exist?
COATLIQUE: They exist in the same way that undiscovered moons orbiting an unknown planet exist.
CHRONOS: How can we talk about what exists, when we hardly exist ourselves?
COATLIQUE: You don’t have to have existence to exist.
—Smithson, 1969
