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Your future self will always see what your present self is blind to. This is the problem with mortality, which is in fact a problem of time.
It isn’t constancy that keeps us alive, it’s the progression we use to move us. Because everything is always the same until, very suddenly, it isn’t.
“I just think the trick with children is to treat them like adults.�
You gave yourself an impossible problem so you’d never be able to stop thinking about it.
I could study you for a lifetime, carrying all of your peculiarities and discretions in the webs of my spidery palms, and still feel empty-handed.
