Weirdly I always thought the scene in the Harry Potter books where the centaurs try to teach a class best captured the distance between what people want historians to be and what we actually are.
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Them: “Just give us a clear timeline that tells us is going to happen.” Me, after discoursing vaguely on broad sweeps of time and the unreliability of knowledge for twenty minutes: “Probably suffering.”
aug 29, 2025, 12:05 am • 5 2 • view