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Surprise me View in browser November 23, 2018 Remy Charlip    Hi! I'm on vacation this week and next. Which means that, if you made a change to your subscription status any time after November 16, you will not see it reflected until the December 7 newsletter. Thanks for understanding my need to get away for awhile.  I'm thinking about time. Neil DeGrasse Tyson: Time is motion. Time is a prison. Time is forever transitioning from our past into an unknown future.   Andy Warhol: "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."   Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse: "Let the wind blow; let the poppy seed itself and the carnation mate with the cabbage. Let the swallow build in the drawing-room, and the thistle thrust aside the tiles, and the butterfly sun itself on the faded chintz of the arm-chairs. Let the broken glass and the china lie out on the lawn and be tangled over with grass and wild berries."   Bill and Ted fall through time for 10 minutes.   The first galley proof of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time, with handwritten corrections, looked liked this. He self-published the first volume after every publisher he approached turned down his handwritten manuscript. "Change is opportunity in disguise. When everything around you starts to change, it’s an invitation to seize new opportunities you might not otherwise have had. In the rush to get things back to “normal”, it’s easy to miss those opportunity or to brush them aside. Instead, don’t be afraid to slow down, take stock and think about as many possibilities as you can and challenge every assumption."  - Emi Kolawole, from her excellent newsletter, E Is For Everything.   Same, Marlon James. Same. The Gratitude Pie An archival hit from 2015, a moment in time before I stopped watching Scandal because of the torture scenes. [This chart is free for all! For paying members, fresh pie will be back on December 7.] "You won't believe what these stars look like now!" How did this become such a common form of linkfarm clickbait?   Counterpoint to trendy "live in the moment" advice: "What best distinguishes our species is an ability that scientists are just beginning to appreciate: We contemplate the future."   I can't find a link to it, but years ago I read an article about brain function, and how vision and memory work together. When you look at something—particularly a face, but this can apply to anything, really—what registers in your brain is only partly informed by the visual details your eyes are taking in. Memory fills in most of the gaps. The percentage was astounding—what you think you're seeing is actually something like 15% new info and 85% memories. Which means that a stranger looking at you sees something totally different than, say, your friend of 10 years, who sees a composite of the now-you and past-you. I think about this article every day. When I meet a new person, and when I look at someone I've loved for years.    Time is a flat circle. The Classifieds Support the growing sustainable fashion movement with your holiday shopping by gifting your friends and family the AWE Box: a curated selection of secondhand clothes in like-new condition. Order a one-time box or a subscription: we’ll mail the recipient a note prompting her to fill out a style survey specifying her likes and favorite brands. I'm on vacation but ads are still for sale! Click for rates and info. What time is it? Newsletter time. AF WEEKLY Subscribe Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Manage paid membership MORE ANN Email me About me Writing archive Public speaking Rent my brain Manage Preferences | Unsubscribe | Ladyswagger, Inc. PO Box 26932 | Los Angeles, CA 90026 © 2018