Tony Platt GoodToGo

“Doing history means building bridges between the past and present, observing both banks of the river, taking an active part on both sides. … The tectonic layers of our lives rest so tightly one on top of the other that we always come up against earlier events in later ones, not as matter that has been fully formed and pushed aside, but absolutely present and alive.”

Bernhard Schlink, The Reader (1995)

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