A PALEONTOLOGIST CONTEMPLATES TIME: 
Some Thoughts about Geology and Human Existence

	Imagine our whole existence
	& everything we’ve touched, heard, or seen
	as a thin sediment layer
	buried beneath a world
	that’s forgotten us completely

	Imagine ozone-depleted, amber skies
	with continents in weird shapes
	& coastlines where mountains once swallowed space

	Finally
	imagine the stars in places
	no human eyes have seen
	& all sandcastles of our civilization
	scattered into thin layers of debris

	What seems "real" and vivid today
	in the twinkling of time
	shall fade, fade, fade . . .


Nadia:   It is sobering to realize how small and insignificant we are.

Will:    That's certainly true, but shouldn't we act as if our tiny sandcastles actually mattered?

Wan-Sze: (musing at his wine glass) Yeah, in one sense our lives are creative works of 
         fiction. By adopting some myths, we create self-fulfilling narratives. And 
         storylines start to seem "real" when characters believe in their own fictions.

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from How Weird: Out of the Box of Expectations by T Newfields
Summary: Some thoughts about a distant future and image of the author within a datasphere.
Keywords: geological time scales, paleontological perspectives, post-humans, post-civilization

Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955 - ?)
Begun: 2010 in Tokyo, Japan ☆ Finished: 2023 in Shizuoka, Japan
Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted

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DEUTSCH   https://www.tnewfields.info/de/pal-zeit.htm
ESPAÑOL   https://www.tnewfields.info/es/paleon.htm
FRANÇAIS  https://www.tnewfields.info/fr/pal.htm
NIHONGO   https://www.tnewfields.info/jp/koseibutsu.htm
ZHŌNGWÉN  https://www.tnewfields.info/zh/gushengwu.htm