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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.
• Hence it is wrong to think of the expression as an attribution to " M " of futurity, presentness, and pastness, all at once ( Marhenke 1935; Broad 1938; Mink 1960; Prior 1967; Christensen 1974; Lloyd 1977; Lowe 1987 ).
• Good history, for kids as well as adults, reveals the unalterable pastness of the past-- the past as a foreign country, with its own logic, laws, pleasures and sorrows, woven together in an intricate pattern of human achievement and defeat, creativity and banality.
• The'past'thus becomes a more general'pastness'in which the stylistic signifiers of various decades are loaded in to a single moment . " She also argues that in this passage the film " briefly shifts from its habitually ironic discourse to one that references the conventions of the classic film musical and in doing so makes it possible for the film to inhabit an affective space that goes beyond stylistic allusion ."
• Past and future don't exist : past-tense and future-tense are simply linguistic referents to current-time mental events that we " interpret " in temporal / causal terms ( in other-possibly less clear-terms, we imbue our thoughts with pastness and futureness, the same way that we imbue a well-crafted pencil drawing with 3-dimensionality ) . put " that " in your pipe and smoke it .-- Ludwigs 2 00 : 09, 9 August 2010 ( UTC)