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CLXXVII explained

A brief meditation on the present moment as a constantly shifting boundary between past and future.

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A brief meditation on the present moment as a constantly shifting boundary between past and future.

Key passages

  • The present is the frontier between the desert of the past and the garden of the future. It is redrawn every moment.

    Now is the ever-changing border between a barren past and a promising future.

    The chapter consists solely of this aphorism.

Poetry — CLXXVII Explained