The past, now.
- The last breath
This morning, I was thinking about death. Death in every second, it kept repeating in my mind. I’m sure I heard that somewhere at some point, or read it. But there’s something that happens sometimes, with things I’ve heard or read or thought a million times. The million and first time, something clicks, something I [...]
- Watchmen
(From my essay “Remembering the future: Time and memory in the Mars chapters of Watchmen,” 10 pages.)
Unlike dismantling weapons with one’s mind, which only he is able to do, Jon (Dr. Manhattan) seems to think that even ordinary humans are quite capable of perceiving time in the way he does (even, perhaps, of seeing the [...]
- Inbox
Discounting spam, I get about 50 emails a day. Every day.
These are snippets from a day in the life of my inbox (today):
From M, 9:56am, subject: Seminarian and Youth Rally on Saturday: “I suggest: 1) We meet for Saturday morning mass at Corpus Christi (optional), 8-8:30 a.m., 2) We go out for breakfast (optional), [...]
- From Antarctica
I had this realization, while I was in the shower, about a week ago. The gist of it was this: I was in the shower, standing there under the water, and I was thinking about a phone conversation I had had a few minutes earlier. I was in the middle of thinking about this conversation [...]
- What happened
People have asked what happened to me ever since it happened, and I’m still not sure what to say. It’s been over two months now, but I didn’t know what to say a week afterwards either. One reason it is difficult to say is because there was not just one definitive event. There was no [...]
- St. Luke
The Pharisees asked him, “When will the kingdom of God come?” He answered, “You cannot tell by observation when the kingdom of God comes. You cannot say, ‘Look, here is is,’ or ‘There it is!’ For the kingdom of God is among you!” (Luke 17:20)
- Memories & words
What some people think is, all potential long-term memories go through what they call a consolidation period, where they are vulnerable to being lost. That’s why when you have some sort of major head trauma or someone cuts out your medial temporal lobe or something, you’ll probably lose what happened in the weeks or months [...]
