Paul Joosse

I don't know enough about that. But I guess it's true that long before writing we had these mnemonic devices.

And it's a song about memory!

It could still be psychological, but just a case of active forgetting

Yeah, I think that stuff is great. The physics metaphor that seems to capture it more (for me - actual physicists may laugh) is black holes. Consumptive, ineluctable, and destructive of all structure, and revolving around a singularity - in this case an individual

Like, there could be an anti-matter planet out there, with anti-matter people walking anti-matter dogs and running anti-matter bureaucracies

As far as I understand, anti-matter behaves just like matter, just in a reversed-world way - it obeys "rules" in the same way that matter does. So if my hunch about what you are after here is correct, this is perhaps a difficulty with the analogy.

"headlining"

📸 Romulo Lelis and Paul Joosse

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