The Bear: Annihilation (dir. Alex Garland, 2018)

Nothing is lost but it changes

Into the new string old string

In the new bag old bag

In the new silk old hair

In the new hat old straw

In the new man the child

and the new not new

the new not new

the new not new

Anais Nin, “Ragtime.” 

“The signal’s not gone, it’s scrambled.”

dialogue from Annihilation 

I lost my dog on Sunday, and on the Friday before that, when I …