the past was always accessible, through books and stories and so on.
I don’t know if that’s right. The past was always accessible to some degree, but never before as an overwhelming exhaustive array of minutiae. It’s precisely because of that level of detail that this past looks so much like the present.
I don’t know if that’s right. The past was always accessible to some degree, but never before as an overwhelming exhaustive array of minutiae. It’s precisely because of that level of detail that this past looks so much like the present.