Suppose that people live forever.
On the SAT test, nigh on two years ago, I had to read and answer questions about a lovely little essay on the subject of immortality. It fascinated me, and when I got home after the test, I tracked it down. It was an op-ed piece in The New York Times, entitled “A Brief Version of Time” written by Alan Lightman in 1993.
Inspired by Jess’s latest blog entry, I dug it up again. The only clean copy I could find was in Google’s cache of an old mailing list archive that has been taken down. I <3 the internet. (There is, of course, a perfectly good copy in Nexis somewhere, and since I’m on campus I have access to it, but Nexis is scary and I don’t know how to use it. I know, I’m terrible. I should go to one of the “How to do research that doesn’t start at Google and end at Wikipedia” workshops at the Library.)
Here it is, for all the world to read again, until the Times finds me.
A Brief Version of Time, by Alan Lightman.
May 8th, 2006 at 5:26 pm
Neat. Nice and short. I almost wrote: “too long, didn’t read” but decided not to be Dylan and ruin something perfectly good.