The Rewind Files

by Claire Willett

“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.” ― ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, The Boscombe Valley Mystery

“How very near us stand the two vast gulfs of time, the past and the future, in which all things disappear.” --MARCUS AURELIUS, Meditations

“And the course of a lifetime runs over and over again,” sang Paul Simon

Because Lincoln was a real person, and real people are complicated. They’re motivated by incomprehensible things, they’re shaped by forces they’re not even aware of, they’re products of their times, they grow and change their minds, they achieve greatness and then make terrible mistakes that undo all the good they’ve done, and then they start from scratch and build it all back up again. There are no rules. There are no straight lines.”

The prayers of both could not be answered,’” he said again. “I think that’s the truest thing anyone’s ever said about war.”

“Time is a tree/this life one leaf/but love is the sky/and I am for you,” she said. “e.e. Cummings.

"The time is out of joint. O cursèd spite, That ever I was born to set it right!" --WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet

Nemesis. Goddess of vengeance.

Slipstream

The Wars of Watergate: The Last Crisis of Richard Nixon, Stanley J. Kutler (Norton, 1990)