"Yet we share a rough idea of what’s meant: a lasting awareness of one’s
self moving in a sea of selves, dependent yet alone, or a deep and
common wish that 'I' somehow belong to 'we,' and that 'we' belong to
something even larger and less comprehensible; and the recurring
thought, so easy to brush aside in the daily effort to get through our
to-do lists, that our time matters precisely because it ends."
--"The Secret Life of Time" by Alan Burdick, The New Yorker
(http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/12/19/the-secret-life-of-time)
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