It Is The Absence Of Facts That

History Offers Us Vicarious Experience. It Allows The Youngest Student To Possess The Ground Equally With His Elders; Without A Knowledge Of History To Give Him A Context For Present Events, He Is At The Mercy Of Every Social Misdiagnosis Handed To Him.

Over The City Lies The Sweet, Rotting Odor Of Yesterday's Unrecollected Sins.

My Concern Is Less The Monarchy As Such Than The Attempt Of A Fading Colonial Power To Hang Onto Grandeur.

Memory Isn't A Theme; It's Part Of The Human Condition.

Some Of These Things Are True And Some Of Them Lies. But They Are All Good Stories.