From the top of a step-pyramid lost continents become more abstract. A house is a lost continent. A street, a shape, a chord change is a lost continent. Darkness is a lost continent. A time of day, a bad idea, an area code, two particular colors next to each other, a catchphrase, a knickknack, all these are lost continents. Everything impossible to forget is a lost continent. Fathers, sons are lost continents. That which is obsolete and that which is useful are lost continents. The future is a lost continent. Names are lost continents. Fondness is a lost continent. Kate Bush’s first piano is a lost continent. America is a lost continent. Verifiable truth, death, meaning, God, the origin of life on Earth, the universe before the sun, whatever came before the universe and whatever will come after.

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