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title: Memento Mori
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date: 2026-03-17
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abstract: The power of vanitas through vanity, herein serving to emanate motivation and tranquility.
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tags: [miscellany]
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js: scripts/memento-mori.js
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---
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<figure class="poem-excerpt">
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<blockquote>
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<p>Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,<br>
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So do our minutes hasten to their end;<br>
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Each changing place with that which goes before,<br>
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In sequent toil all forwards do contend.</p>
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</blockquote>
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<figcaption><a href="/poetry/sonnet-60.html">Sonnet 60</a> — William Shakespeare</figcaption>
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</figure>
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[Your writing here. This page is for you as much as anyone. A few paragraphs about time, about why you make things, about what this site and its slow accumulation mean. The grid below is the argument; this prose is the response to it.]
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<div id="weeks-grid-wrapper"></div>
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<div id="countdown-wrapper"></div>
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---
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## Applied Vanitas
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::: dropcap
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Time passes regardless of our wishes, our intentions, our apprehensions. That is perhaps the most beautifully profound fact of our existence, and one that therefore I view with gratitude.
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MANY ARTISTS AND THINKERS ALIKE HAVE, OVER CENTURIES, TRIED [TO]{.smallcaps} ENCAPSULATE THIS BEAUTIFUL PROFUNDITY. [*Vanitas*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanitas)^[Spanish Wikipedia has a far more detailed and preferable entry concerning *Vanitas*. For those who speak Spanish, [see here](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanitas)] I do not think that my words can do this subject terrible justice, so rather than trying to encapsulate the potent nature of the subject myself, I will only speak here about what it means to me, interspersing my remarks with art of various forms for us to appreciate.
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### My Creative Works
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::: {.score-fragment score-name="Bassoon Concerto, II (2025-2026)" score-caption="A solo bassoon excerpt from my 2025-2026 Bassoon Concerto."}
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