How much newness we experience largely defines our sense of time. Without memory, time doesn’t exist, and the borders bookending clockable events are the checkpoints we need to chart its passage. That’s why time felt so twisted during COVID-19 lockdown. A 2020 survey conducted in the U.K. revealed that more than 80 percent of participants felt like quarantime was distorted. We didn’t have as many experiences worth recording then—simple life things, like knocking back your first oyster at the new bistro in town or chancing upon an incredible wool coat in the haystack of a thrift store, or even
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