![]() ![]() In phenomenological terms, a world is not simply a collection of states of affairs in space and time. ![]() Best not to get bogged down in tangential disputes. ![]() And I expect that my creeping ontological anxiety may well resonate with you, even if we’re getting there in different ways. So I’ve decided to bypass details in this instance, and leave the broader context of this writing implicit in the background because that worry about a lack of common ground gets closer to why the finale of The Leftovers has been recently sticking in my mind than any strained analogy between events in the show and events in this reality we inhabit. ![]() Are we still living in the same world? Were we ever? Has your experience been like mine? I feel like, if I’m honest, I simply do not know. And then I’ve started delving into things about my experience over the past year and a half, but they’ve had a way of feeling too weirdly personal, or I’ve worried about finding common ground. But things feel quite a bit different in 2021 than they did in 2018, almost like we’ve had our own Sudden Departure to grapple with.Īt this point in previous drafts, I’ve started talking about COVID-19 and how I know a pandemic is not a Sudden Departure, which of course you know too because it’s obvious. I wrote on the show rather extensively a few years back, in the Before Times, and I hope you might go read that work because I’m proud of it. I’ve found myself thinking about The Leftovers a lot lately, and its finale (“The Book of Nora”) in particular. ![]()
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