A note that started from A Chegada and keeps growing.

• A Chegada: knowing the ending does not make the choice smaller.

• Outer Wilds: a loop where only knowledge survives.

• Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End: an elf learning, too late, how short human lives are.

Related: Slow stories, Places that remember.

Open questions

• Is nostalgia a kind of time travel?

• Find a book that does what Arrival does with structure