Posted by sigismund on August 2, 2013, at 17:25:38
In reply to Re: lost years » rjlockhart37, posted by SLS on August 1, 2013, at 1:35:43
> my thoughts are of a catastrophic nature, and my frame of reference is cosmic. It is somewhat existential.
Once going into a Buddhist lecture thing I turned to my friend and said 'The reason I read history is to collect evidence against them', a joke with some truth in it.
I started with the Holocaust and read backward, leaping the period between the 30 Years War and the French Revolution. Almost 20 years and a room full of books. I really don't know what to say about that. Most people feel that history is depressing.
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