The Present

The 'Present' seems to unify Space and Time, insofar as it commonly means both 'Here' and 'Now'. However, these meanings ignore the links to 'There' and 'Then'. Likewise, the principle 'Live in the Present!' can degenerate from 'Pay attention!' to a formula for superficiality, if the Now is severed from the Then that leads into it, or the Here is isolated from a subsequential There. Even granted such wider scope, these are still static notions that are ultimately indistinguishable from one another. In contrast, to Exposit means 'to Present', and to Propriate means 'to represent the pre-sent'. So, the Present is, more accurately, non-coincidingly Janus-faced.