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"Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough or revealing their documentation. We are doomed to be forever hailing someone who has just gone around the corner and out of earshot."
— Simon Schama (Dead Certainties: Unwarranted Speculations)
— Simon Schama (Dead Certainties: Unwarranted Speculations)
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