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4 Dec 2022
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โโ"It is this which prevents the past from being lost, as unknowable as the future. It is memory which thus provides time with its arrow."
In the second sentence, what does the word "arrow" mean??๐๐
A metaphorical expression??๐๐ญ
โโ"It is this which prevents the past from being lost, as unknowable as the future. It is memory which thus provides time with its arrow."
In the second sentence, what does the word "arrow" mean??๐๐
A metaphorical expression??๐๐ญ
In the second sentence, what does the word "arrow" mean??๐๐
A metaphorical expression??๐๐ญ
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I think I know what it is now, But I think it's too late!
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The author is saying that if we could not remember the past it would be as unknown as the future. But it is unclear, to me, in what way memory is like an arrow. It is a metaphor, yes, but it is said in a very poetical way. Is โarrowโ,here, meant as a weapon? Or is it meant only like something you that points a person in a certain direction? ๐
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Okay, I'm sorry! But I have to say what I think it is! "the present"?!
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@yuu6
I think "arrow" refers to "direction."
To simplify the language:
It is memory which keeps the past from being unknown, like the future.
It is memory which tells time *which way to go*, (out of the past, to where we are now, in the present moment), preventing the past from being lost forever.
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