Desire is mediated by memory so that it acts towards a repletion or a recovery of a prior state that appears as a paradise of sorts. As memory is a floating world of appearances so desire is without a core of truth, but is a divergent motion spawning further refracted desires. This is a way of being in time, a distinctive temporalisation without history. In spite of its dependence on memory it is always in the present, always in the moment of gratification, even if that moment is never realised. The temporality of self is quite different being an intersection of timelessness and time. The self is a completion of history in which the meaning of experience is revealed through its fulfillment.