He was not ashamed of it; he merely thought it was finished, although in truth it was only beginning, for it is that perpetual beginning of the past that we call the future.
他并不以那段过去为耻,只是以为它已经结束;其实它才刚刚开始,因为我们所谓的未来,正是过去不断重新开始。
— James Stephens · Irish Fairy Tales (1920) · The Birth of Bran —