Death is a form of self-dispossession which must be rehearsed in life if it is to be successfully accomplished. Otherwise it will prove to be a cul-de-sac rather than a horizon. (Terry Eagleton, On Evil)

When I read cul-de-sac I thought of Marla Oddo who lived at the end of a cul-de-sac in Villa Dark. That's where we left her, standing by a round above ground pool, in a lost picture.

It is in consciousness that the past is preserved and prolonged into the present, the actual; in “pure memory” all the details of the past are retained, albeit mostly unconsciously. Unconscious because, to meet the needs of living, only those memories that are useful to the present are realized. (Bergson and Intuitive Knowledge)

The above photograph is of this bad energy site constructed in the desert that we saw from the air en route to La Crescenta. These mirrors in the desert burn birds in flight.