“Why should permanence be a prerequisite for reality?” And perhaps a person is real while continuously becoming someone slightly different. Scoute does not have to persist as an identical object in order to persist as an identity. Scoute is the ongoing event of Scoute. I believe we are whole despite the means to an end of life which is growth, change, differences. I don't exist because I am remembered. I am remembered, potentially, because I existed and acted. To exist is to