But it is possible to conceive beings built in such fashion that they perceive simultaneously what we regard as the past and the future.
We may conceive beings who perceive phenomena in a retrograde order, and see them unroll themselves from our future to our past.

Animals disposing of space otherwise than ourselves, and able, for instance, to move at a speed greater than that of light, would conceive an idea of the succession of phenomena which would differ greatly from our own." "If only Durville is not going to rag me on the stage!" exclaimed Felicie, while Madame Michon was putting on her stockings under her skirt.
Constantin Marc assured her that Durville did not even dream of any such thing, and begged her not to be uneasy.
And Dr.Socrates resumed his discourse.
"We ourselves, of a clear night, when we gaze at Spica Virginis, which is throbbing above the top of a poplar, can see at one and the same time that which was and that which is.

And it may be said with equal truth that we see that which is and that which will be.

For if the star, such as it appears to us, represents the past as compared with the tree, the tree constitutes the future as compared with the star.

Yet the star, which, from afar, shows us its tiny, fiery countenance, not as it is to-day, but as it was in the time of our youth, perhaps even before our birth, and the poplar-tree, whose young leaves are trembling in the fresh night air, come together within us in the same moment of time, and to us are present simultaneously.