"The past reaches forward" was an alternative title for this book. It catches the sense of past, present, and future being bound together in ways not always evident to creatures attached somewhere in the line of events through which we daily live. T.S. Eliot puts it better in the opening lines of 'Burnt Norton': "Time present and time past/ Are both perhaps present in time future/ And time future contained in time past." Well, this is a heavyweight...