myrmepropagandist on Nostr: I wonder if I can yet strive to control, to exploit this sensory ability. Can I name ...
I wonder if I can yet strive to control, to exploit this sensory ability. Can I name moment in my present with a perfume password? And, like a sommelier of time & past selves, someday uncork a fragment of the past at will? Is the vivid nature of such memories evidence that they correctly record the past? Or is it a trick of the mind, of emotion?
I smile thinking of a future me arrested, astonished by this memory of being but 40 and remembering imagining remembering future memories. 4/4
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