Imagine an Eight- or Nine-Year-Old Girl in a Cupboard

The Technology of Forgetting, Long-Range Catastrophes, and Pandora’s Mistake

I came to work.

I got busy.

Went out for a cigarette in front of the building.

People pass by in all colors—on bikes, in cars, on motorbikes, on foot.

People from all over the world are here.

I try to col…