All at once

This week I read Ben Lerner&rsquo;s new book Transcription , a fictional dive into the early days of the pandemic, technology, and the effect of both on memory and experience. One particular sentence (actually, just a part of a sentence) late in the book really hit for me: "I felt eight and eighteen and forty-five all at once..." It evokes that feeling that you are well beyond your youth, but so…