Those early-seventies Eagles songs felt like they came from the era of my parents' youth, after they graduated from college but before I existed; the sunniness and easiness, genuine or not, was an ideal.
I go for a swim in the deep basin and thoughts of sperm, and fish and how my dad swam in this pool six years before I existed, come to mind.
Mesmerisingly misted, set in the decade before I existed (is there ever any more fascinating decade?), and an utter treat, it retold Sadie Jones's fine tale of a mother, an impossibly sweet boy, an impervious father back from the war, a gin-and-teacups drowning.
I often take solace in the idea that the protons, neutrons and electrons that make up every atom in every molecule in my body were around, in some form or another, long before I existed.
But, releasing my song TV has brought forth a wave of love from people who didn't know I exist before.
Before 9/11, I existed in a pleasant bubble of safety and ignorance.
These days we can't live without Google; but before it existed, I couldn't even have articulated my need for it.
So I was a fan long before she even knew I existed.
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I'm thriving in a real career that I never before knew existed.
Consider some philosophical problems that will be familiar from introductory metaphysics classes: Does the table that I think I see before me exist?
