more on history

[sashash]

Is the tragedy of history that we have to repeat it to ourselves? That it's left us, and if we don't record it -- then read it -- it almost never happened? Clearly, the implications and ramifications of history are everywhere -- cause and effect are basic laws of the universe

Comments

Do me a favor:

[radioactiveart]

Got get a copy of, and read, Robert Pogue Harrison's "The Dominion Of The Dead." That's all I'm going to say.

Re: Do me a favor:

[sashash]

on it. i'll put it in the queue after "Disposession by Degrees: Native Land and Identity in Natick, Massachusetts."

the unconquorable nation...

[freetaco]

imagination.

time may eat everything, the angel with her wings blown open & facign the past, but history and its characters are something else. When I want to connect to, say, a certain personality or a character from lit or the past, I begin thinking about how they would react to the things I do, what they would do if they were right here, now. Or, conversely, what would I do, what could I learn from how they acted. Would I do something so very different?

I was listening to the first Radio Lab show this morning, and it's on time and history, and this notion of repeating and whatnot. there's discussion of the quantum theory of time, of eternal moments and fractured universes, all of which I am incredibly skeptical about. I guess I am a believer in linear time and strong imaginations.

Re: the unconquorable nation...

[sashash]

maybe it's time for me to podcast Radio Lab, then, because i'm young and impressionable and my spirituality is best categorized as Madly in Love with Searching.

thank you, David. i'm gonna use precisely what you said above (imagining how the people of 400 years ago would react to what i react to) when i delve back into my book.

Golly.

[saracowgirl]

That was beautifully put Adam.

Re: Golly.

[sashash]

thank you, baby!

[morthsha]

I--like that. think about that. teach history. How weird. How strange. how's life?

[sashash]

life is grand. unemployment check to unemployment check, but grand.