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He has been here an eternity. He has given up hope. But a clock ticks for all of us, silently, somewhere. And one is ticking even for him.
Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out.
Sometimes, when people get old they fear the end will not come soon enough. So there is always fear of time.
Unlike the sun, which looked the same every day, the changing moon gave Dor something to count, and he gouged holes on clay tablets until he noticed a pattern. The pattern was what the Greeks would later call “months.”
They used to be closer, but lately mother and daughter share a mutual incomprehension; each seems baffled by the other.
“Soon man will count all his days, and then smaller segments of the day, and then smaller still—until the counting consumes him, and the wonder of the world he has been given is lost.”
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faxed a stack of material on cryonics.
See Hope Frozen, a Netflix documentary. The film tells the story of a Thai family who decide to cryonically freeze their dying two-year-old daughter's brain in the hope she can be brought back to life when technology is advanced enough, and the journey of discovery they go
(the first person cryogenically frozen was in 1972),
James Hiram Bedford, a former University of California-Berkeley psychology professor who died of renal cancer on Jan. 12, 1967. Bedford was the first human to be cryonically preserved—that is, frozen and stored indefinitely in the hopes that technology to revive him will one day exist. He's been at Alcor since 1991. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bedford
But man invents nothing God did not create first.
Not aging is not the same as living, and without human contact, his soul dried up.
“It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be.”
“You marked the minutes,” the old man said. “But did you use them wisely? To be still? To cherish? To be grateful? To lift and be lifted?”
We all think we have used them wisely.
a library in Madrid,
Libraries and reading are the definition of modern civilization.
He found a coat that suited him on a hanger in a Japanese restaurant.
Ever wonder when things go missing? Maybe people like Dor take them.
“You don’t need another ice cream bar,” Tom would say.
A cruel way to point out that he thinks she is fat.
now. What you have done to this point cannot be undone.
Einstein once postulated that if you traveled at an enormous rate of speed, time would actually slow down relative to the world you left behind,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_relativity
When we are most alone is when we embrace another’s loneliness.
“Watching your memories.” “Why?” “To remember how to feel.”
