But the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is a present, just as I can point to something over there only because I am here. But nothing is inherently over there or here. In that sense, the past has no content. The past - or more accurately, pastness - is a position. Thus, in no way can we identify the past as past


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Michel-Rolph Trouillot Quotes

But the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is a present, just as I can point to...

But the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is a present, just as I can point to...

But the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is a present, just as I can point to...

But the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is a present, just as I can point to...