sum of parts

      The present is a thin line between the past and the future hence the only true way to live in the present is to repeat the present. Consider music. Is it not a set of notes strung together. The whole set of notes is the music. To live in the present with the music is to repeat the note. Similarly consider a book. Is it not a set of letters strung together. To live in the present in the book, would we not have to reduce our reading/writing down to one word, word,word,word or maybe even one letter l,l,l. Alas the entire structure tends to become absurd. It may be self confirming but evolutionary nature has not evolved us to operate as such. Perhaps this is what Heidegger meant with dasein. Being in time is to listen to the a preferred set of notes vs a more consciously effort of reducing them.