This document discusses past tenses in English grammar, specifically the past simple and past continuous tenses. The past simple is used to describe permanent or long-term situations in the past, while the past continuous describes temporary situations that were occurring at a specific time in the past. The text then provides an excerpt from Edvard Munch's 1892 diary describing a recurring vision that inspired his famous painting "The Scream", and notes that in 2012 a version of the painting was auctioned for $120 million.