(chris’s) blog

Our ideas can’t be limp because they are in attention; somebody would notice them.
Richard Dawkins says we’ve evolved to interface with our medium-sized “middle world,” making the scales of the atom and of the cosmos queer.
Death in middle-world is unimportant to these other scales, and since death is important to us, death doesn’t exist the [...]

Recall a favorite memory of your childhood. You can see yourself there, you remember what it looked like, perhaps what it smelled like. How is it you can do that? How do you call yourself back to that moment which is no longer? ” I was there!” You might say, ” I remember it!” But [...]

I dreamt I had been drafted for war, and that the first battle was in my backyard.
Somebody in the enemy’s line yelled, ” Does anybody know what time it is?” We had to start soon.
The first shot was fired - a tiny piece of metal, no bigger than a marble had punctured somebody’s skull and [...]