Death Perspective - Spatializing Time

Adeline 2022-03-21 09:02:25

"All history is contemporary history", which is proposed by the Italian historian and philosopher Crocci in his monograph "The Theory and Practice of History".

The soul floats in space, occupying all living space, but time is frozen. What the dead person sees is the movement of people in each room at the same instant. The slow movement of the perspective forms a large plane in a time node. Space is visual, intuitive, and non-memory - the past memories of the male protagonist who keep flashing back are not in the current space, but the traumatic experience throughout his childhood.

Just like the stone at the foot of Qingfeng Mountain mentioned in the first chapter of A Dream of Red Mansions, the whole world has been viewed. Time has no meaning for the stone.

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Enter the Void quotes

  • Linda: I really feel so happy with you. I feel free. I feel very, very free. You promise me you'll never leave me?

    Oscar: Of course.

    Linda: We die together?

    Oscar: We'll never die.

    Linda: We'll never die?

    Oscar: Never.

    Linda: We're immortal?

    Oscar: Yes. We will never die.

    Linda: Good.

  • Linda: Don't you want to find a real job?

    Oscar: Fuck no. Everybody who has a job is just a slave.