[W]hatever physical intimacy had opened up between us had dissolved with the storm […]. More than that: it was as though the physical intimacy with Alex, just the like the sociability with strangers or the aura around objects, wasn’t just over, but retrospectively erased. Because those moments had been enabled by a future that had never arrived, they could not be remembered from this future that, at and as the present, had obtained; they’d faded from the photograph.

Ben Lerner, 10:04