Everyone has a time machine. Everyone is a time machine. It’s just that most people’s machines are broken.
Charles Yu – How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
Personal Time Machines
P
Present Builds Future
P
The future is built on the present, and the present is just the past by another name.
Charles Yu – How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
Reading Life Backward
R
If you could read your life backward, or forward, you’d find the same themes running through it.
Charles Yu – How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
The Nature of Memory
T
Memory is a machine that slows down, jams, sometimes gets stuck.
Charles Yu – How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
Difficulty in Waiting
D
It turns out the hardest thing to do is to wait for someone to come back.
Charles Yu – How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
Concentration Challenges
C
In a city of the future, it is difficult to concentrate.
Charles Yu – How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
Pain to Experience
P
Time is a machine: it will convert your pain into experience.
Charles Yu – How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
Catching Thoughts
C
I am not my brain. I am not my thoughts. I am the net that can catch them.
Charles Yu – How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
Intimate Universe
I
A universe is just two people sitting in a room.
Charles Yu – How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
Personal Endings
P
The end of the world happens every day, for someone.
Charles Yu – How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe