Tag: hibernation
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To sleep, to die, perchance to dream…
Just to be clear, I don’t actually have a wish to hibernate; I am still quite happy with sleeping: I like the large selection of dreams. I also like the idea of waking up if and when my bladder needs me or, I suppose, if the refrigerator signals to me in the middle of the…
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I’ll note you in my book of memory
As I rattle slowly through the years, I find that I am spending increasing time with my memories. I’m told that even the best ones change the more they are recalled -they are not videotapes, or even photographs stored in albums inside my head- but still, they will suffice. I do not need much detail…
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Adversity’s sweet milk, philosophy
I realize how malleable our memories can be; how a passion in our later life can be attributed to a precocious childhood; how we can bend the past like origamied paper. But, short of recognizably dated diary passages, or a still-living family member (whose memory could be equally suspect), there can be no reliable verification…