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A country you can't visit but somehow keep redecorating in your head.
means The time that has already happened, everything that came before now.
from From Latin 'passus,' the past participle of 'pati' — to suffer or undergo — which gave Old French 'passer,' to pass or go by. English 'past' began life as a worn-down form of 'passed,' the time that has gone by us and slipped behind. So 'past' is literally what has already passed — a verb that froze into a noun, like a footprint left in the act of walking on.
- light delay
- Every star you see is showing you its history
- memory edits
- Recalling a memory rewrites it slightly each time
- language clue
- Many cultures imagine the past as ahead, not behind
- legal weight
- Statutes of limitations let crimes expire into nothing