#AiForHumans:“The Fifth Twenty”. Notes for a book that doesn’t exist yet

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Two cover ideas for a book that doesn’t exist. For now, at least. Then we’ll see. All writing, like life, is a work-in-progress. I intend to write a book that recaps my existence in five twenty-year periods. I’m currently navigating the fifth and hope to complete it. Whether it’s the last or the best, before I leave this world. Will it be a digital or paper book? Time will tell.

The first twenty-year period begins on August 9, 1939
Second twenty-year period: August 9, 1959 — August 9, 1979
Third twenty-year period: August 9, 1979 — August 9, 1999
Fourth twenty-year period: August 9, 1999 — August 9, 2019
Fifth twenty-year period: August 9, 2019 — August 9, 2039

It will be exactly 100 years, lived between two centuries and two millennia. I need to pigeonhole my life experience over every twenty years. A sort of “narrative cage” made up of events, discoveries, and changes both inside and outside of my being a man. How to unite past, present, and future and make everything “present.”

Not out of writerly vanity, a display of narcissism, or mere exhibitionism, much less self-celebration. It’s simply a matter of taking a life’s reckoning. I don’t remember who said it, but everyone, at a certain age, should write their autobiography.

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