Posts in History
Words Worth Noting - December 9, 2021

“Does history repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce? No, that’s too grand, too considered a process. History just burps, and we taste again that raw-onion sandwich it swallowed centuries ago.”

Julian Barnes, quoted as “Thought du jour” in Globe & Mail March 21, 2002

Words Worth Noting - December 2, 2021

“Thucydides... wanted to be ‘judged useful by those who want to understand clearly the events which happened in the past and (human nature being what it is) will, at some time or other and in much the same ways, be repeated in the future.’”

National Review March 6, 1995