I will not make this needlessly long:
The explosive pertinence of a remembered detail may challenge repressive or merely complacent systems of prescriptive memory or history; memory like the body, may speak in a language that reasoned inquiry will not hear.
Randolph Starn & Natalie Zemon Davis
N.B. also, two fantastic names.
#almost_a_real_post
Not for a long time has a thought from my daily search for quotes led me to something quite so striking as today:
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
This is a beautiful mirror for my sense of idealism. And also perhaps one of the reasons that i am forever obsessed with psychopathy