Sublime

Todo se me evapora. Mi vida entera, mis recuerdos, mi imaginación y lo que contiene, mi personalidad, todo se me evapora. Continuamente siento que he sido otro, que he sentido otro, que he pensado otro. Aquello a lo que asisto es un espectáculo con otro escenario. Y aquello a lo que asisto soy yo.

No system of thought can contain the fullness of human experience.

To uncover the innate image we must set aside the psychological frames that are usually used, and mostly used up. They do not reveal enough. They trim a life to fit the frame: developmental growth, step by step, from infancy, through troubled youth, to midlife crisis and aging, to death. Plodding your way through an already planned map, you are on

“All of us,” he said, “are walking around with an illusion—an illusion that history, our personal history, has just come to an end, that we have just recently become the people that we were always meant to be and will be for the rest of our lives.” We tend to never learn this lesson. Gilbert’s research shows people from age 18 to 68 underestimate

Although autobiographical memories are not necessarily accurate, they are 'mostly congruent with one's self knowledge, life themes, or sense of self' (Barclay

In literary cultures, past events, removed from living memories and fixed to printed pages, lose their vividness and immediacy. Moreover,

When the very old die, they each take a multitude with them.

Por eso damos datos de una biografía, pero también es la biografía, por así decir, de una cura, en la que no se sabe todo, sólo lo justo, en la que no todo es significativo en el mismo momento.