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Wonderful writing; and very synchronicitous to a book i recently delved into - i.e., Byung-Chul Han's, 'The Scent of Time'; wherein said writer attempts to shine a light (i.e., consciousness) on the fact that, thanks to the digital/information age, time has lost is inherent sense/scent of immanence; and, moreover, it is only when, as the protagonist of Marcel Proust's magnums opus, 'In Search of Lost Time' (aka, 'Remembrance of Things Past') discovers, man returns to a state of vita contemplativa (as opposed to today's state of, 'vita activa') that he can recapture/reinvigorate the mysterious, nay mystical sense/scent of time {in Proust's protagonist's case, it was via the sense(s) of taste/smell of a madeleine cake dipped in lime blossom tea that he was able to trigger a cascade of memories and feelings linking said sensations to his early childhood}; and, thereby, create: an image of self; an identity; a narrative; and, most significantly, an authentic/autochthonous human being. That is all! RGB-Y5 out!!

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