You are a life-form consisted in large mass by your genetic material, a small squishy electrical brain and attached wiring, and maybe a few finer things. In your children do your fathers retrieve for history that which will surely be lost to it — yourselves. The exception to my observation:

"Everything lost can be retrieved except lost time."
-- Andy Voelkle (the millennium 2000)


Are there other exceptions? Where is a replacement for my beloved Kershaw 2920 twist lock, last seen sinking below the 10 fathom region with 2,000 more to go South off The Big Island? Where is my well-spent but now lost youth?