Impossible Histories annotations on Julian

These are annotations for the eighth chapter of the book Impossible Histories. I’m not saying you need to keep a copy of IH open next to you as you read, but it might make some things clearer?

p. 153
•epigraph:

Some men have a passion for horses, others for birds, others, again, for wild beasts; but I, from childhood, have been penetrated with a passionate longing to acquire books.
§Julian, letter to Ecdicius (AD 362).

•a dream to reverse the relentless march of history: William F. Buckley once vow...