'the height from which past and [future] are ... equally visible'

She has the novelist's preoccupation with logic, the logic of Time past and Time future, not so much the real short-story teller's obsession with Time present—the height from which past and [future]* are presumed to be equally visible.

—Frank O'Connor, The Lonely Voice: A Study of the Short Story (1963)

*text says "past and present," but I think he meant future.