Tearing your favourite article of clothing and discovering that it’s
irreplaceable because the technique of its manufacture has been lost
Realising you’ve thought of the perfect comeback to someone who’s been dead for three hundred years
Not being able to eat your favourite dish anymore because the source of some critical ingredient has gone extinct
Having strong opinions about sports that are no longer played
Getting a song from the 13th Century stuck in your head and being unable to get it out because you don’t remember how it ends and you’re the only person on Earth who knows it
Having that perfect pun you’ve been waiting forever for a chance to use stop working due to linguistic drift
Being an immortal Roman noble would suck balls because most Roman cuisine involved silphium and it’s extinct now because they liked it so much.
You know an awful lot about being an immortal Roman noble for someone who’s supposedly not an immortal Roman noble….
The Knottiness of Existence 