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But remembering the past is also a way of believing that
this moment will someday be the past. Which is to say, nostalgia for the past is also a way of believing in the future. Daydreaming about the After Times the Before Times’s mythic counterpart is in part an exercise in imagining what it will be like to look back at the pandemic. And imagining the time when we might have even the slightest glimmers of nostalgia for daily life during the pandemic the wall hooks holding our masks or the makeshift shacks of outdoor tables filling the city streets is a way of believing there will be a time when it’s finished, a time when we can look back and survey the entire arc of the story.