“In the past, technology was not as advanced as it is today.”

“Charles Bradley is a man with a storied past, notably his long stint as a James Brown impersonator.”

“Any event must have all three properties, pastness, presentness and futurity, but this is a contradiction.”

“It calls up the seeming paradox of writing a history, an account of pastness, of things that are of the relative present.”

“Past actions and characters are determinate because of their very pastness.”