Unlike most other [[methods]] of [[measuring]] time, the hourglass concretely [[represents]] the present as being between the [[past]] and the [[future]], and this has made it an [[enduring]] [[symbol]] of time itself. | Unlike most other [[methods]] of [[measuring]] time, the hourglass concretely [[represents]] the present as being between the [[past]] and the [[future]], and this has made it an [[enduring]] [[symbol]] of time itself. |