Fabrizio del Wrongo writes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdFzMLZAXEM

People live in a tiny time-slice of the present moment, which they carry forward with them. But nothing remains. And there’s nothing in their experience which reverberates down the centuries, because the centuries to them are completely dark. Just unillumined corridors from which they stagger into the single little sliver of light.

— Roger Scruton