“Much of the conversation in the country consisted of lines from television shows, both past and present.”
“The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.”
“The television replaced the sound of conversation that was missing from my grandparents' lives.”
“Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future.”
“It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.”
“silent desperation of everything they never said - gaps and absences in every conversation, the past circumscribing the present, the future hemming in the past.”