Interview with the Neanderthal

In The Paris Review Daily.

 

Teaser quote

 

     INTERVIEWER

 

But let’s not get distracted. You’re essentially saying you can access memories from past lives. Is that correct?

 

     THE NEANDERTHAL

 

Yes. I mean, that’s misleading to put it that way, because these “past lives” were not me. It’s not like my personality existed forty thousand years ago. But I can access, I’m convinced, personalities and events that occurred at the time when the Neanderthal species—as a distinct thing—ceased to exist.

 

[originally posted Wednesday 14 May 2017]