That kind of reply, however, simply puzzles the process thinker, for if events do not really «happen», no unique temporal sense can be given to «earlier» and «later.» (religion-online.org)
There can be no succession, in the uniquely temporal sense, unless the past is causally efficacious, and the past is causally efficacious as past only if the emergent present bears some stamp of heterogeneous novelty. (religion-online.org)
Where there was little temporal sense, other than a vague sense of the present, elsewhere in the Arsenale, time, in most works in «Utopia Station», was an elastic term, leapfrogging between past, present and future. (frieze.com)