Our Culture Is An Edifice Built Of

The Best Memorizers In The World - Who Almost All Hail From Europe - Can Memorize A Pack Of Cards In Less Than A Minute. A Few Have Begun To Approach The 30-second Mark, Considered The 'four-minute Mile Of Memory.'

We've Outsourced Our Memories To Digital Devices, And The Result Is That We No Longer Trust Our Memories. We See Every Small Forgotten Thing As Evidence That They're Failing Us.

Monotony Collapses Time. Novelty Unfolds It.

Kissing Could Have Begun As A Way Of Sniffing Out Who's Who. From A Whiff To A Kiss Was Just A Short Trip Across The Face.

Our Culture Is An Edifice Built Of Externalized Memories.