"We have a few friends standing around trying to make sure nothing disappears, but people were generally very well behaved".
Bad news: in the digital age, nothing -- or nearly nothing -- disappears.
According to Hägglund, human life does not desire to escape time and find repose in some timeless paradise; in such an imagined state in which nothing can disappear, nothing can be valued either.
And yet there must be something that persists even through substantial change, since otherwise we wouldn't have change at all; substances would come to exist from nothing and disappear into nothing.
Nothing ever disappeared from the universe, she said, it just got farther away.
With dialogue, that last unreality of the silent film, the mouth that opens and says nothing audible disappeared.
At the same time, nothing has disappeared from the landscape of Vilnius: Miłosz sees the same 'forests of brown gold' in October, when the weather, again, is like wine, and the familiar hills and twisted baroque gables whisper that everything passes but are also witnesses to the permanence of the world, resurrected in human memory.
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Watts Towers and about their creator Sam Rodia, who spent 33 years building a number of tall towers and other structures in his backyard, then in 1954, when he was about 79 years old, deeded his property to a neighbor for nothing, and disappeared.
By Calvin Trillin The New Yorker, May 29 , 1965P. 72 REPORTER AT LARGE about the Watts Towers and about their creator Sam Rodia, who spent 33 years building a number of tall towers and other structures in his backyard, then in 1954, when he was about 79 years old, deeded his property to a neighbor for nothing, and disappeared.
