"Yesterday is but the memory of today; tomorrow is its dream." --Gibran
Considering time in terms of human cognitive activities (memory and dreaming) rather than as discrete, impersonal units...I like that. This statement is predicated on the assumption that time is subjective, a man-made concept, its own existence dependent on the existence of humans-- or at least a human. It predicates an observer, a thinking organism.
So, as for linguistic implications, instead of "What did you do yesterday?" and "What are you doing tomorrow?", we would be bound to ask "What do you remember today?" and "What do you dream of today?"; it always being Today. And different tenses being marked by "remembering" and "dreaming" rather than by inflection of the verb "to do". Not very practical, but very poetic.
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