17. Ephemeral but legendary histories

[futurebird]

←- more to come ...History is, of course, far more than books describe. Histories are carried by people in many ways, and they change over time. Our understanding of the past is continuously revised by our experience of the present. Hence, history is under constant revision and rarely in agreement with itself. When I say history, I do not mean "

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[lanyel]

History is what we make of it

[bellisaurius]

Over time, an organism changes. Over a few years, all the skin cells you have, and many others will have changed over, new replacing old. Even in their absence, there is a continuity, a continuing "self