7/17 After Jurassic Park Rebirth last night, what we chose out of the hundreds of halls in the American Museum of Natural History were of course the dinosaurs. Lots of things you obviously know but that strike you more profoundly when confronted with them in this physical reality. The size of the skeletons. How seeing the skeleton up close makes you wonder immediately if they’d suffered from arthritis, and then you tell yourself they had many more million years to exist as a species than we did, so you’d hope they’d maybe evolved past arthritis. And of course, how our entire homo sapiens history is such a tiny flicker by comparison, how easily it might turn out to have been just a curious little blip.