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“It is not that what is past casts its light on what is present or what is present its light on what is past rather image is that wherein what has been comes together in a flash with the now to form a constellation”

Walter Benjamin

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The idea is that past events and current moments combine quickly and create a new understanding or insight, like stars forming a pattern in the sky.

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