What separates prior from subsequent is exactly nothing; for in every obstacle to be cleared there is something positive which gives itself as about to be cleared. The prior consciousness is always there (though with the modification of "pastness") It constantly maintains a relation of interpretation with the present consciousness, but on the basis of this existential relation it is put out of the game, out of the circuit, between parentheses -- exactly as in the eyes of one practicing the phenomenological (e(Pai)oxn), the world both in within him and outside of him ~ Page 28