." Perhaps it might be said rightly that there are three times:
a time present of things past; a time present of things present; and a time present of things future.
For these three do coexist somehow in the soul, for otherwise I could not see them.
The time present of things past is memory; the time present of things present is direct experience;
the time present of things future is expectation. "
''The remembering self is a storyteller. And that really starts with a basic response of our memories
-- it starts.immediately. We don't only tell stories when we set out to tell stories.
Our memory tells us stories, that is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story. ''