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Reflections on life after life pdf2/3/2023 ![]() It was in fact the ordinary nature of everything preceding the event that prevented me from truly believing it had happened, absorbing it, incorporating it, getting past it. I had made no changes to that file since I wrote the words, in January 2004, a day or two or three after the fact.Īt some point, in the interest of remembering what seemed most striking about what had happened, I considered adding those words, "the ordinary instant." I saw immediately that there would be no need to add the word "ordinary," because there would be no forgetting it: the word never left my mind. ![]() ![]() I had made no changes to that file in May. The computer dating on the Microsoft Word file ("Notes on change.doc") reads "May 20, 2004, 11:11 p.m.," but that would have been a case of my opening the file and reflexively pressing save when I closed it. Those were the first words I wrote after it happened. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.
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