A memory I feel is significant here: I remember the first time I ever saw Francisco Goya’s painting Saturn Devouring His Son. It made my head spin: I was alone, at home, and I saw it on my computer.
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- Jan 2026
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meanjin.com.au meanjin.com.au
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The most unstable thing I can think of is time: where does the past go?
I ask myself this constantly and never come close to an answer.
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Old wounds linger in this way, and it is not all in the mind. I withdrew and made my way back to the sand, all courage gone.
This feels true in my body, not just emotionally or metaphorically.
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Google shows me that I am a creature of habit.
I'm not sure if this statement makes me feel comforted that I remain in my habits or depressing because my habits are so routine that a robot can map that out.
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Nothing disappears: your every movement is a collection of data points, fed into algorithms that use this information to do everything from alert you to traffic jams in your area to notify you when you’re running low on nappies for your newborn.
This line makes you feel eerie and uncomfortable. I don't want everything to be remembered for me.
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Google has this handy and terrifying feature called Timeline, which shows you everywhere you’ve ever been, how many times you’ve been there, and how long you’ve been there each time.
It's scary how easily my life gets flattened into data I never agreed to keep.
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newtfire.org newtfire.org
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Knowledge assumes multipleforms
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The ant colony and the Ivory Tower
Compares something that is "permanent" to something that is not. This could possibly refer to the stated network of knowledge as the ivory tower and the materials we learn with as the ant colony because they are easily destroyed. Once you learn something it can't be taken away, or in this case destroyed.
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