Last summer I picked up a yellow scrap of newspaper and read of a Biloxi election in 1948, and in it I caught the smell of history more pungently than from the metal marker telling of the French and Spanish two hundred years ago and the Yankees one hundred years ago. 1948. What a faroff time.

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Themes

  • History — Lessons from the past and the arc of human civilisation
  • Time — Reflections on the passage of time and how we spend it

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