Regarding the term/phrase the passage of time: Is it simply referring to time passing (i.e. moving forward / passing by)? A metaphor to invoke imagery of a passageway (path, tunnel, channel, corridor, etc.)? Or the process of transition from one state to another (past→present→future)?
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I think it’s more in the sense of something passing like wind or water. It passes (verb) in a continuous flow from future to the “instant of the present” and then on to the past. Of course that is also imagery, but it is not a noun “passage” like a tunnel or hallway. It is an action.
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