Tuesday, May 15, 2007

New Words

I don't think day-dream is a good word.

Possible replacement: future-memory?

That imaginary series of images which one might generate while looking out of a classroom window. Unlike a dream, which is almost definitely jammed full of symbolist bullshit, aka "meaning", a future-memory is the mind's way of positing a simple future action which is basically identical to past actions. These past and future memories are generally simple: walking through the snow, napping under a tree, playing frisbee on the lawn. The only difference between the two is which has occurred - future memories, unlike dreams for the future, are almost always probable actions, separated from past memories only by the time or place they occur.

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