I admit I had a suspicion that I would complete and read over my master timeline and say "aaaaah." But the timeline is complete (see yesterday's posting) and what I feel now is mostly a sense of relief. No Big Zig-Zagging dialectic suggests itself, no from-status-to-contract big picture. No world cycle. No "aaaaaah." So is life just one damned thing after another? Maybe I should make up a timeline of the efforts to answer THAT question. For now I will just note a couple of obvious features of the Big Timeline: Events crowd together because of presentism. Early in the timeline, I skipped past millions of years from one post to the next -- then it was just thousands of years, then an approximately one-post-per-century pace. Finally it was a year-to-year listing. Of course I have several recent month-by -month timelines for recent years on this blog, but I decided not to include those. The impression conveyed by a sufficiently detached alien reading yesterday...