Erstwhile Okie on St. Mark's Place. "That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past."
Once I was lost in the hinterlands of eastern Pennsylvania. I stopped into a gas station to ask where the town I sought was. The clerk didn't know but a scruffy old redneck in line chuckled and said "Go west, young man", and that's always stuck with me.