I can only know my human embodied time in which hair changes color and bodies change shape.
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Where these words come from
- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- About Time with Laurie Anderson (2024 conversation; published 2025); Exact wording and attribution checked. Hirshfield contrasts human embodied experience with physics. Source misspells her surname in title; canonical spelling corrected in author field.
- About Time with Laurie Anderson (2024 conversation; published 2025)
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