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Bob Marley once sung that “none of them can stop the time,” an idea expanded upon by Nas who declared that “time is illmatic” – not just an incredible force but the incredible force and necessarily, implacably, essentially so.
All very true, but neither man had experienced a pandemic. Things are different now, and the way in which we measure our lives might never be the same, the simple passage of days taking on different meaning or meaning nothing at all. How on earth can we grasp what’s happened and what’s happening, if we have no context in which to set it? If everything stops – if we don’t experience joy, change and the touch of those closest to us – then are we even alive?