Recursion

by Blake Crouch

Life is nothing how he expected it would be when he was young and living under the delusion that things could be controlled. Nothing can be controlled. Only endured.

If you change the way your brain processes an event, you change the duration of the ‘now.’ You actually change the point at which the present becomes the past. It’s yet another way that the concept of the present is just an illusion, made out of memories and constructed by our brain.”

is déjà vu actually the specter of false timelines that never happened but did, casting their shadows upon reality?

On deja vu

That’s one of the great things about New York—no one cares about your emotional state as long as there’s no blood involved.