“I went away from this place and I lived somewhere else. Years passed. When I came back, it was all the same. It had been years, but the place was the same.”
- So I Went Away by Scott McClanahan
It was impossible, while living there, to avoid all of the people who knew how I’d messed up on my way to personhood, or teach them that the versions of me they knew were not accurate versions. Once a particle is inside the horizon, moving into the hole is as inevitable as moving forward in time and can actually be thought of as equivalent to doing so. Yu specializes in saving people who try to travel back in time to correct their mistakes. It’s impossible, he says.
Our own Sarah Gerard, on the BOMBLOG, writing about Florida, Charles Yu, and black holes. (via mcnallyjackson)
The Seven Basic Jokes, more or less, pulled from the archives!
For joke specimen number four, I think we can safely add ‘the internet’ to that short subject list.
