Days are enormous - by Henrik Karlsson - Escaping Flatland
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Evolution of the Cosmos from a single point (Bindu), c. 1700 Since I began working on this essay three hours ago, around 21,000 people have, statistically, died. Now the sky is low and cloudy; I’m feeling tired, and looking at the numbers, I learn that about 10 million people are having sex as I type this sentence. It can be hard to appreciate just how large each moment of each day is, how much more is going on than we experience. Even just thinking about the fact that every place I’ve ever visited still exists (however reconfigured) gives me vertigo. In the medical factory where I worked…
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