In Wolfson’s more careful terms, this is “a time, in which the past remains present to the future, in which the future is already present to the past, just as the notes of a musical phrase, though played successively, nevertheless persist all together in the present and thus for a phrase.”49 And here is Wolfson again, now approvingly quoting Corbin: “Nights and days, hours and minutes, are simply means of determining the measure of time; but these measurements are not time itself. In itself, time is the limit of the persistence of the eternal Form ‘on the surface’ of the accidental matter of
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