Knowledge Of Past Events Is An External Event Exerting Force On

PRESENT EVENTS

The Past Is An Instrument Of Constraint

- 1 I am bound to repeat my mistakes

- 2 The chains of my past...

The Past Is A Place Of Confinement

- 1 I can't escape from that memory

- 2 He's trapped in his past

The Past Is A Captor

- 1 He is imprisoned by his past

- 2 The past rules her life

The Past Is A Pursuer

- 1 You can't hide from your past

- 2 My past caught up with me

- 3 It's no use fleeing from your pastThe mapping is basically:Being Constrained is Being unable to forgetEscaping confinement is ForgettingHiding, running away is Trying to forgetSurrendering is Giving up trying to forget

Note: be about assumptions people make about you because of yourpast, and about the effects, in general, that your past has on you.

Source Domain
constraint confinement

Target Domain
past events time

Leslie Van Duzer (185)

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