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A nd historical awareness, T . S . Eliot said, means acknowledging the pastness of the past as well as its presence.
They embody what Eliot meant when he said that historical awareness depends on knowing not just the presence but also the pastness of the past.
On the other hand, while dilapidated structures give a sense of pastness, they provide little sense of what the building might actually have looked like.
Few other writers, for any age group, have made the sheer pastness of the past seem so palpable _ or managed to turn the labyrinth of memory into a stage for such grave waltzes or ecstatic cartwheels.
On the one hand events are earlier than and later than each other, and on the other hand they are future, present, and past, and continually changing their position in terms of futurity, presentness, and pastness.