thebegats: “I know that it is possible to consider history wholly in the context of ideas&
thebegats: “I know that it is possible to consider history wholly in the context of ideas—the rise of this abstraction, the pressure exerted by that—because people do. And are impatient and even enraged if you suggest that human personality enters into it. But that isn’t the way my mind works. I have to get out an imaginary telescope and fiddle with the lens until I see something that interests me, preferably something small and unimportant.… If the telescope is focused properly, ideas are caught in it as well as people.” — William Maxwell, Ancestors Yesterday’s air travel clusterf*ck emergency re-read -- source link
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