#SORRY THAT SPACETIME IS A TRANSPARENT BLOCK OF NOWS THRU WHICH LIFE TUNNELS LIKE A LITTLE MOLE RAT.

[sashayed]

One of the most important things I know (and didn’t always know!) is that there is in a bedrock experiential sense only one time: that it is always now and never not now, although maybe you have to have spent much of your life feeling estranged from your own experiences for this concept to be "important" or "revelatory," rather than either "obvious" or "crazy" or, reasonably, (contemptuous jerkoff motions). Maybe if you have a brain that sorts "things that are actually happening" into a more urgent or immediate register than "ideas for things that MIGHT happen, how awful it would be if those things happened, and how to prevent them," then it does not surprise you or change your life to realize that it is always now and you only have to work with what is available to you now. Maybe it would not, for such a mind, be a kind of cataclysmic rebirth to discover that the bad future you are almost constantly building in your head -- while not necessarily always optional -- is always made up. I would not know! All I know is Anne Carson said nothing crazy!! Anne Carson is fucking right!!!!!!