as i walked, my interest in nostalgia and its relationship to extinction grew, because it offered me hope that it was also natural to us to be protective of nature. as such, we could 

take measures in our lives to increase this tendency at the expense of other selfish, hostile aspects of our character. i began to wonder if nostalgic impulses were vestiges of the kind of memory prehistoric people developed as they spread into farther reaches. these journeys and diffusions caused us to be a global and dominant species. but what kind of animal had migrations made us?


melanie challenger
on extinction
ghosts