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Aging as migration between timelines resonates online

Original: “I think if you live long enough, you become a migrant from another timeline. There’s the world you learn to navigate as

A widely shared reflection argues that living long enough makes everyone a migrant from another timeline: the world you learn to navigate in adulthood slips away by degrees until nothing of it remains, yet you are still here. The piece, connected to the novel Exit Party, has struck a chord with readers who recognise the feeling of outliving the culture and norms that shaped them.

Why now: The meditation on ageing and cultural displacement is striking a chord with people who feel estranged from the world they grew up in.

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• “I think if you live long enough, you become a migrant from another timeline. There’s the world you learn to navigate as you enter adulthood, and then that world slips away from you by degrees, and after a while there’s nothing left of it, but you’re still here.” Exit Party.… · CiaraNi@mastodon.green · 45

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