It’s not about the missing period of history, or about what was but about what could have been. The thinking that there was a time when things could have been different, and what that different future – with its attendant alternate present – might have been like.
Read MoreThe vaccination was the sort of surreal experience that most of the past year has been characterized by, a jumble of elements that don’t really seem to have much to do with one another all jammed up one atop the other into a confusing melange. While the past year has been full of anxiety, and many unnecessary deaths, the moments where these elements are far from my mind seem to be characterized by this sort of mostly-benign irrealism.
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