People can be perceived as carriers of deep time and genetic continuity
Evidence
I often see people as if in a frozen moment and they seem to have an internal glow inside them. Their skin seems translucent and they carry their own time. I feel calm and distant and warm from this. It can happen in an instant. In very mundane urban situations. You realise you are not looking at a single person, but at a sort of stream or cascade. … It happened yesterday in a supermarket. I happened to glance at a young woman who looked like a transfigured hidden Madonna. She wore jeans and a teeshirt, an ordinary woman. But equally, she was a continuity, a lovely genetic physical thread to other times, both previous and ahead and still unformed. She simply glowed. Quietly and unknowingly luminous. The Eternal Woman. — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 404
Categorization
- FICTION: The ‘carrying their own time, a stream or cascade’ perception of ordinary people could seed a ghost/hauntological story about glimpsing the ancestral and descendant threads in a stranger.
- STORYSTEM: A character who involuntarily sees people as translucent streams of their genetic lineage — a supermarket epiphany as the seed for a domestic uncanny story.
- XREF: connects to: Human recurrence comes from repeated assembly of cultural and genetic resources; Human traits recur through repeated face-to-face group assembly, not just genes — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 390; Long postreproductive human lifespans evolved to transmit accumulated cultural knowledge. — Joseph Henrich, The Secret of Our Success: How Culture…, 446 (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- Human recurrence comes from repeated assembly of cultural and genetic resources
#expands(0.80) - Human traits recur through repeated face-to-face group assembly, not just genes
#expands(0.78) — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 390 - Long postreproductive human lifespans evolved to transmit accumulated cultural knowledge.
#corroborates(0.75) — Joseph Henrich, The Secret of Our Success, 446