Past
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- past: in the past, over with
- past: passed
- past Eve and > pa stEvean, i.e.: the death of joyce's "pa" john joyce (+ december 29, 1931) and the birth of his grandson "stEvean" (stephen joyce, *february 15, 1932), as joined together in joyce's poem "ecce puer": "a child is sleeping: an old man dying". so in a more general sense: the cycle of dying and being born again. (observation made by hugh kenner and related by brenda maddox.)