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Time's Strikethrough

It's a strikethrough. The past projects a future. But whatever that imagined future is, controls the present. The end of the narrative controls, constructs, what will be now. In certainty that the end is triumph, everything is a strikethrough of that triumph. It tells us how memory works. Ironically linear time does not control memory. The past and the future and the present will be used here only as constructions or conventions of speaking.

This will be the first account of collective memory where the past does not define memory and where memory is studied outside of linear notions of time. The terms past and future skew so much.

And why do it? Not for study but for healing. But also not for an outcome. Maybe for beauty where beauty has no outcome and that no outcome means that you are 
healed.

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