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Up to and including Totality and Infinity, Levinas thought of temporality on the brink of the event which was the Other, marking the dawning of a new future. This thought process continued until the forgiveness of a present, which would then absolve us of our past. Nevertheless, from insistent meditation in La trace de l’autre, Levinas re-examined that very dawning from out of a past forever past and for which we would be answerable. From the face to the trace left behind, the future would be opened for us only in the break in our answer to this immemorial past, from where the Other calls us incessantly. Uprooted from ourselves, here we are “ashamed of survival,” ordered to the future by the charge of an ever-evasive past, from which we ourselves can never escape. Starting from his thought of the Other’s trace and mortality, Levinas includes his own meditation of time and history within the trace of the immemorial—impossible memory, to the memory of the impossible, the ethical sense which is irreducible to an improbable “duty of memory.” “A voice comes from the other side. A voice interrupts the saying of what is already said.” It is devoted, just now, to what is constantly to come, according to a vocation, a peity, which is time itself.