"... the past is now barely present in my thoughts. I believe the main reason for that is children, since life with them in the here and now occupies all the space. They even squeeze out the most recent past: ask me what I did three days ago and I can't remember. Ask me what Vanja was like two years ago, Heidi two months ago, John two weeks ago, and I can't remember. A lot happens in our little everyday life, but it always happens within the same routine, and more than anything else it has changed my perspective of time."
Karl Ove Knausgaard "A Death in the Family - My Struggle: Book 1" Vintage Books, London, 2014, p32.
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