history

(Lafayette Square, St Louis, the house overlooking the house i'll live in when i'm rich and possibly famous - see next instalment)

But this is History. Distance yourselves. Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground. We don't see it, and because we don't see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past. And one of the historian's jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be...

History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.

How do I define history? Well it's just one fucking thing after another, isn't it?

[The History Boys]