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Dala  ·  2068 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: March 27, 2019

Have been working my way around Meditations Book 7 as discussed last week but with finishing a book that is due back to the library soon and reading Sandkings for Sci-fi club, I hadn't made a whole lot of progress. So tonight I sat down and worked on 7.1 and something was bothering me about the use of the word "transient" in the line:

    Familiar, transient.

So I looked up transient and there is the commonly-used definition of "passing in and out of existence quickly," but also a second definition, "affecting something or producing results beyond itself."

Reading the same passage in another translation seems to confirm that he meant the "short-lived" kind of transience, but this got me thinking about things that can be both kind of transient; short-lived and having affects beyond themselves.