May 27, 2025
Story-time (the time within a story) is not linear. The living and the dead meet as listeners and judges within this time, and the greater the number of listeners felt to be there, the more intimate the story becomes to each listener. Stories are one way of sharing the belief that justice is imminent... The difference between seasons, as also the difference between night and day, shine and rain, is vital. The flow of time is turbulent. The turbulence makes life-times shorter - both in fact and subjectively. Duration is brief. Nothing lasts. This is as much a prayer as a lament.
John Berger, Ten Dispatches About Endurance
