Time does not genuinely heal past errors

Evidence

Her error is of the kind that is passed over, but not forgiven. As Ivy Compton-Burnett says, “Time has too much credit … It is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all.” — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 585

Categorization

• XREF: Contrasts with the chapter’s closing hope that art renews the past — memory as wound versus memory as renewal. — connects to: Every decision is irreversible because time is linear — Brian Christian, The Alignment Problem, 1264; Temporal unity cannot be rebuilt from atemporal substances; Permanence presupposes time rather than helping constitute it
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 585

Broader Connections

• Every decision is irreversible because time is linear #complicates (0.55) — Brian Christian, The Alignment Problem, 1264