| Any event must have all three properties, pastness, presentness and futurity, but this is a contradiction. |
| This change requires us to place futurity, rather than pastness, at the heart of our thinking about culture. |
| It calls up the seeming paradox of writing a history, an account of pastness, of things that are of the relative present. |
| There is a patina of pastness and folkloric authenticity that pervades the marketplace. |
| Past actions and characters are determinate because of their very pastness. |
| In the latter case, but not in the former, the pastness is part of the content believed. |
