Past Moment Ponderer Gifts

'My whole life flashed before my eyes. I want to talk to the guy who did the editing.'

Historical memory is on life support.

"Counsel for prose is overruled. Poetry, you may continue."

'They look more up to date than the ones in your tool-box.'

"...I don't believe in the past or the future. I don't even believe in right now. Everyone remembers the past differently. Everyone imagines the future differently. Everyone even disagrees about what's happening right now. So who's to say tomorrow what you and I did tonight?"

'Why don't you try seeing it from your point of view?'

Rock - see you in a million years!

"May I offer a very different scenario?"

'We never had all these labour-saving devices in my young day!'

'And I thought I had a big egg to lay.'

The Final Selfie

"Definitive." "Compelling." "Persuasive." "Upside down."

'Egad! It's the ghosts of sanity past!'

"I think you're suffering from nostalgia, Mr. Prentice."

RIP William Shakespeare: To be or not to be...

Artist chained to his drawing.

Truth

Sign pointing to 'hindsight' and 'foresight'

The sad case of the blind-men and the elephant.

"I'm having trouble with my long-term memory -- I can't remember my earlier reincarnations."

Lady Jane Grey

"Half full, or half empty? Do you want a positive spin, or a negative spin?"

History Department: 'I used to be a revisionist myself, you know!'

"Never mind how other see you, how do you see yourself?"

"I'm basically happy but I'd like a most cost-effective personality."

Door sign states: Reincarnation studies Come again ... and again.

Man looking down long telescope at himself.

"One man's dirty water is another man's Earl Grey."

Bowther, Wilkin, Lynch & Fisk

"It kind of puts it all in perspective, doesn't it?"

'Well, yes, Bob, I can see your point!'

"Sure, everything looks great from up here, but how's our ground game?"

"Remember when we used to flock together, instead of just tweeting all day on line?"

The past only looks good when you're living in the present.