TE17 Mysterious Montenegro

The Dreamed Part

requires analysis and study and assimilation. When you pay more attention to something, the brain works more and annuls and slows down everything around us to prevent distractions. Thus theoccasional zombie-Zen focus of somechildren. Aswegrowup, things surprise us less, situations repeat, and—with the exception of those catastrophes that freeze us where we stand or pin us to the ground like the electrified nail of a lightning bolt—events precipitate more automatically. And we do things almost without noticing what we’re doing, including making declarations of the “I love you” or the “I’m going home” variety. † The time of children—for whom the past is so brief and the future so immense—is the time of pure present. This is the time that some old people return to (being pushed around in little chairs with wheels once again, crying at the slightest provocation, uttering words incomprehensible to everyone, and have true difficulty controlling their bodily functions) knowing that the future is no longer inviting them to its party. And that the celebrations that the past puts on are attended by ever more dead people or the memory of too many others that it’s better not to think about it. And so, stay and recover, one last time, an absolute now. A day by day and a night by night. A don’t make too many plans for tomorrow because you never know and, so, sleep less and never dream again. † Suddenly understood, just once, watching The Time Machine on television with Penelope’s son: the time machine has already been invented. The machine that makes you go back to the future or into the past. The time machine is called Son .

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