Night 5
Time bending
Readings
- poem Burnt Norton (opening) Read at Four Quartets text →
- essay Kafka and His Precursors Read at Google search →
- story Story of Your Life Read at Google search →
Tonight's writers bend time until it stops behaving. Eliot collapses past and future into a single garden. Borges argues that influence can travel backward through history. Chiang asks what a life looks like if you already know how it ends. The question connecting all three: does knowing the future change how you live in the present?
Journal entry coming soon.