“We're well past the end of the century when time, for the first time, curved, bent, slipped, flash forwarded, and flashed back yet still kept rolling along. We know it all now, with our thoughts traveling at the speed of a tweet, our 140 characters in search of a paragraph. We're post-history. We're post-mystery.” KnowsFirstsWellsStillsEndsCharacterPastMysteryCenturyFirst TimeSpeedPostsFlashRollingOur ThoughtsBentTweetParagraphKnow It All140 CharacterRolling Along Author:Ali Smith
“To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognize it "the way it really was"...It means to seize hold of a memory as it flashes up at a moment of danger.” WayMeanDoeMomentsPastMemoriesDangerFlash Author:Walter Benjamin
“Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.” PastLife IsJoyLiteratureOur LivesSorrowFlashWovenRadiant Author:Nikolai Gogol