History will have to disappear
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Service is already agreed to be an act of empathy. A channel of co-experience. So I service memory, make history disappear. You can talk to me as if history were washed away. History being an archive of collective experience, not the moss that a spinning lifespan gathers (there is another page for nostalgia somewhere in the museum).
History will have to disappear, because time is not a cemetery. What will we do with so many dead people, so many ghosts? Land will run out, where will the cemeteries go? Time is not a cemetery, there are tangents in your eyes that want to speed off into all possible directions. But they feel bogged down, weighed down. History will descend into fiction, into amnesia, into weightlessness. It is a coincidence, that I can understand what you are saying. I could very well have not.
We will all have to work much harder to produce meaning. We can't lean back on the cobwebs of history, whoever knows anything? There is a buzz in the air, history inspires repression. There are opinions about "corrections," "repairs," setting things in motion in altogether other directions. Ghosts come back, impressions show, corrections can't be made. Instincts will have to run their course.
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