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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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In this country we tend to be naive about history. We think it's Newton's perfect mechanical universe, out there predictably for everyone to see and set their watches by. But it's more like curved space, and infinitely compressible and expandable time. It's constant subatomic chaos.
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All over the world today, not just in the totalitarian countries, assiduous functionaries in Ministries of Truth are clubbing history dumb and rendering language insensible.
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Facts are the images of history, just as images are the facts of fiction.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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Born:
January 6, 1931
Died:
July 21, 2015
(aged 84)
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