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July 22, 2006

QotD: History

Of course, [the world's] not ending; it never does. Not all at once, anyway. Every day the world ends somewhere for someone. Ideas take a little longer to die, and history dies only to don a sheet and haunt everyone in the neighborhood for a couple hundred years. Part of this mess today is due to the idiocy of the First World War, the Mother of all Wrong Turns at Albequerque. My grandchildren will deal with the empty echoes of Kaiserism.

James Lileks, The Bleat, 2006-07-17

Posted by Nicholas at July 22, 2006 12:08 AM
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