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Sunday, 25 April 2021

Nothing is more varying than the point present but its being-present remains absolutely fixed. This is strange because the being-present is a kind of content, it has particular flavour and feel to it and in as far as you can recall this presence-quality in past moments - and this is something which it seems can be done to a high degree - it is paradoxical that presence itself can be known of as past. Experience itself always seems to be on the way somewhere in its perpetual shuttle of states and stages and in that sense is always nearer or farther from some unattained and changing position in time. The diegetic distance is continually changing which the ontological gap remains absolutely constant. This means that in terms of the latter all experience is equal, that every recalled moment is of precisely the same significance. Put simply, if you go along with the representations all is in motion, but if you are looking at how these representations come about, if you are attending to the screen, nothing is moving at all.

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