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and future are not distributed according to this empirical criterion” (DR 89). On the other hand,
to the extent that time as change is in a living present or way of being, the series past, present and
future are in a living present or in a way of being. This is how Deleuze describes the serial past.
“In effect, there is always a time at which the imagined act is supposed ‘too big for me.’ This
defines a priori the past or the before” (DR 89). And this is how Deleuze describes the serial
present. “The second time, which relates to the caesura itself, is thus the present of
metamorphosis, a becoming equal to the act and a doubling of the self, and the projection of an
ideal self in the image of the act...” (DR 89). Finally, this is how Deleuze describes the serial
future. “As for the third time in which the future appears, this signifies that the event and the act
possess a secret coherence which excludes that of the self; that they turn back against the self
which has become their equal and smash it to pieces...: what the self has become equal to is the
unequal in itself” (DR 89). But what are these descriptions? That reminiscence constitutes pure
time means that the Platonic Idea takes time as change hostage. In other words, a living present
or a way of being passes in terms of the Platonic Idea, in other words, a living present or a way
of being does not become. It returns to its mythical past. This is the eternal return of the same or
being. On the other hand, Deleuze argues that there is a way in which a living present time or a
way of living actually passes, in other words, a way in which a living present or a way of being
becomes. Deleuze distinguishes between the serial past, serial present and serial future in order
to explain in what sense this actual passing, this becoming is possible. In this sense, the
descriptions of the series of past, present and future describe the process that a living present
undergoes in actual passing or becoming.
Time as change is not just a series of past, present and future. It is also a totality. “Having
abjured its empirical content, having overturned its own ground time is defined not only by a
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