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My ideas here are a bit underdeveloped, I hope to sharpen them as our reading of D&R continues. But it has struck me that, while there are three syntheses of time in D&R, in Deleuze’s much later Cinema volumes there are really only two. The first Cinema volume, The Movement-Image, is coherent with habit as the synthesis of the present in D&R. But in the second volume, The Time-Image, it seems to me that Deleuze combines the attributes of the other two syntheses: this image is both past/memory and future/rupture at once. I am not sure what to make of this. James Williams, in his book on Deleuze’s philosophy of time, dismisses the Cinema books, seeing them as losing the insights of D&R. But I would like to think more about this conflation of the past and future syntheses.