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"The constitution of a historical discourse and the composition of a historical narrative are interpretive exercises and, therefore, partly at least aesthetic, moral, and political choices—or commitments—made by the historian writing...history is not merely the provision of useful information about ‘‘what really happened,’’ but the endowment of events with significance and meaning."
— Mar 17, 2022 08:15AM
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"Tragedy presents us with a picture of ourselves as simultaneously authors of our ends and authored by forces and circumstances over which we have no—or little—rational control. In other words, we are at once makers and made, at once active and passive creatures, positively shaping our experience and receptively yielding (or being obliged to yield) to the world’s contingent demands on us."
— Mar 20, 2022 04:28PM
