In fact, it says here that you’re a … historian?” I nodded. “Is that a job?” “Actually,” I said, “it is—or at least it used to be. The study of history can—” “Isn’t every scrap of known history available to anyone at any time?” I nodded. “So what, exactly, makes you more of a historian than me, for example?” “Well,” I said, “I’ve actually bothered to access a lot of those scraps.”
