Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Einstein and Faulkner

Einstein said the arrow of time flies in only one direction. Faulkner, being from Mississippi, understood the matter differently. He said the past is never dead; it’s not even past.

And who among us, offered the chance, would not relive the day or hour in which we first knew love, or made a choice that forever altered our future, negating a life we might have had? Such chances are rarely granted.

Memory and grief prove Faulkner right enough, but Einstein knew the finality of action.

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