Would You Want a Return Visit?

[Wizard of Whatever]

Anyone who wishes to repeat the experience of this life, world, universe, space, place, or time is terminally insane.

 

[TheVat]

I need to read Ballard - you're the second person to mention him to me in the space of a few weeks. And swerving back to topic, I have wondered if there were inflection points in one's life where people would want to roll the tape back to, porting the wisdom of a lifetime back to that moment. As it is, all we feel we can do is look back occasionally and think man was I young and stupid! Usually mixed with a yearning for youth and innocence and a simpler worldview. It would be interesting to have a do-over where one loses all the memories of the later life, except for one crucial piece of information, planted as a kind of unsourced intuition.

And last week I discover there is a British novelist, Kate Atkinson, who basically takes that do-over with unsourced intuition idea and runs with it.

Life After Life (novel) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Also a BBC miniseries.