"It is not that what is past casts…" — Walter Benjamin

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过去的光辉并不照亮现在，现在的光辉也不照亮过去，而是影像在其中过去与现在闪电般地结合形成星座。

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“As flowers turn toward the sun, by dint of a secret heliotropism the past strives to turn ...”

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