Where Does the Past Go?

This one turns toward memory—not as storage, but as resonance, as the ongoing interplay between past and present:

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TOPO:
The past feels like something behind us.
Gone, concluded.

RHEO:

But is it ever really gone?

Or does it just change its form?

TOPO:

You mean, it lingers?

RHEO:

Yes.

Not as static recall, but as influence.

It lives in posture, in rhythm, in response.

TOPO:

So memory is not a file to retrieve,

but a structure of presence?

RHEO:

Exactly.

The past shapes how we move now, even when unnamed.

TOPO:

Then the past is not back there.

It’s folded into the present.

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RHEO & TOPO:

The past does not disappear.

It echoes—

not to trap us, but to thicken the present with depth.