Ken & David B
“ History is after all nothing but a bag of tricks we play on the dead.” Voltaire
“ History is the art of choosing, from among many lies, that one which most
resembles the truth” Rousseau
“Here’s what I think the bottom line is: if you’re looking for truth, try
fiction.” ... I’ve always believed that the lies we use to make our fictions
reveal the truth with far more honesty than any history ...”Charles de Lint
Memory & Dream Tor Books 1994.
The MoQ says essentially the same thing. Histories that we, at times
fervently, believe to be absolute are in fact just static patterns of values
whose only relationship to the experience is the passion and the power of the
individual espousing the POV.
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