Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date.

“This morning was a long time ago” — Ozark S04E07 Sanctified

"The present grows out of the past."

“It is sentimental error, therefore, to believe that the past is dead.” — James Baldwin

“...the past is all that makes the present coherent.”— James Baldwin

Time, in other words — particularly our experience of it as a continuity of successive moments — is a cognitive illusion rather than an inherent feature of the universe, a construction of human consciousness and perhaps the very hallmark of human consciousness.