Topic > Duality of life in Amy Hempel's short story "Going"

Exploring the duality of memory; how we perceive the past, learning about the duality of the present; how we are constantly between the expectation of the future and past experience, as well as coming to the realization of the duality of life and death; how we always live and die at the same time. We are constantly in a state of suspension between dual experiences, be they life and death, love and loss, hot and cold, fast and slow, near and far, past and future. There is no distinction between them as they are all interconnected and depend on each other for their existence. One would not exist without the other and we cannot appreciate the good without the bad. Life offers infinite possibilities and even more ways to experience them, so we must embrace them all with acceptance and appreciate the act of suspending life as we