“How do we know that our life really happened and that we are not simply accumulating details, making it all up as we go along?”
“We’re making this movie up as we go along. And we don’t know how it ends or even if it does end.”
“For after all we make our faces as we go along...”
“We muddle along, we let life happen to us, we gradually build up a store of memories. There is the question of accumulation, but not in the sense that Adrian meant, just the simple adding up and adding on of life. And as the poet pointed out, there is a difference between addition and increase.”
“That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.”
“How do we come to choose what it is that we spend our days doing? Would we choose it again if we could? Did we choose it today, or has it simply carried us along somehow?”