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The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion — but what matters is not whether time is real, but whether we have used it as though something depended on us.
— Simone Weil, Waiting for God (1951)

1mo ago

themarginalian.org

How to Read the Signal of Your Life

Actuality is when the lighthouse is dark between flashes: it is the instant between the ticks of the watch: it is a void interval slipping forever through time: the rupture between past and future: the gap at the poles of the revolving magnetic field, infinitesimally small but ultimately real. It is the interchronic pause when nothing is happening. It is the void between events. Yet the instant of actuality is all we ever can know directly.

2mo ago

We are in the habit of imagining our lives to be linear, a long march from birth to death. But they are in fact constantly renewed, and the great events of our lives happen again and again.

3mo ago

longreads.com

Happy Fucking Birthday

"Dear Mr. Benjamin Franklin," wrote a seventh grader from Winterville, Georgia. "In your time, the United States hardly existed. As I am writing this letter, it is almost the semi quincentennial, and BOY does the US exist now!"

4mo ago

We are in the habit of imagining our lives to be linear, a long march from birth to death. In fact, they are composed of thousands of days, each one a world in itself.

5mo ago

themarginalian.org

The Music of Trees: Improvisation, Iteration, and the Science of Immortality

Every tree is a jazz player, in just this way, although where a long Coltrane piece might last a quarter hour, a tree's performance may go on for half a millennium or more.

7mo ago

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