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QC@QiaochuYuan• over 1 year ago

> The moment I first held my child, I had a vision of every human being who had ever done the same. I stood paralyzed, rooted to the spot while before my eyes a whole field of ancestors stretched back into the forgotten past, each cradling a baby just like I was doing. https://t.co/WPc1LiT2Cx

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QC@QiaochuYuan• over 1 year ago

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> What was I without them? Nothing at all. A cosmic joke, a fluke, or a random collection of atoms. But with them, I was one stage of a process, a chapter of a story.

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QC@QiaochuYuan• over 1 year ago

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> It had always seemed to me that the problem of intersubjectivity could never be conquered, that between minds there yawned an unbridgeable epistemic chasm. Yet here was an experience that I shared with countless others from the most varied places and times... https://t.co/kRnmQJDhMI

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QC@QiaochuYuan• over 1 year ago

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> ...an experience I shared with emperors and with slaves. André Maurois once said: “Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.”

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QC@QiaochuYuan• over 1 year ago

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> I didn’t just see the past. In that moment, the future also resolved itself into dreadful clarity. I had always known intellectually that someday I would die, and that the world would continue mostly as it had, but I never really believed it.

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QC@QiaochuYuan• over 1 year ago

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> Not anymore. Now I regarded the newborn squirming in my arms, and knew with absolute certainty that if things went well this child would bury me, and then continue living.

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QC@QiaochuYuan• over 1 year ago

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> Suddenly the far-future mattered, I had skin in the game now. I was no longer a temporal provincial, past and future both had an immediate and urgent reality, and I knew that I would never think the same way about them again.

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QC@QiaochuYuan• over 1 year ago

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from "REVIEW: The Children of Men, by P.D. James," by john psmith https://t.co/hiy4mwAA7z

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 1 year ago

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@QiaochuYuan yea 🥲 https://t.co/YPSjfFOuLI

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QC@QiaochuYuan• over 1 year ago

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@visakanv 🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡 https://t.co/drMmCWCpfG

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