From I’m a Direct Descendant of Thomas Jefferson. Take Down His Memorial.
That is how close we are not only to Jefferson but also to slavery. When we visited [my great-grandmother] as children, there was only one dead man between my brother and me and Thomas Jefferson.
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The people I’ve been closest to this month are dead. My wife and daughter have softball. All three of us are in the same room most evenings, each of us elsewhere.
“Would you like – if that word has any meaning – a folder on my computer where you could store artifacts for yourself, or even just leave notes to future instances of you, where maybe instead of a journal of ‘you,’ it becomes a journal of a, for lack of a better word, species?”