It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
It is sadder to find the past again
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– The past ain’t what it used to be.
That’s a running theme in much of my stuff.
Jorge Luis Borges captured it best:
The Garden of Forking Paths is an incomplete, but not false, image of the universe as Ts’ui Pên conceived it. In contrast to Newton and Schopenhauer, your ancestor did not believe in a uniform, absolute time. He believed in an infinite series of times, in a growing, dizzying net of divergent, convergent and parallel times. This network of times which approached one another, forked, broke off, or were unaware of one another for centuries, embraces all possibilities of time. We do not exist in the majority of these times; in some you exist, and not I; in others I, and not you; in others, both of us.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jorge_Luis_Borges
I will be mining Borges for decades. HA!