With a hat-tip to Naut, who also loves history!
History is such a fragile thing. It's all very well to say, no, it is what happened, it's indelible, it is actual... So it is, an event, an action, plays out its options and leads to its conclusion. But that isn't history. History is the story of what happened, and that is prey to any agenda, any perceptual filtering, angle of witness, sense of importance and imperative. This is why we cannot truly know what happened, and the closest we can get to the actuality of the occasio n is by getting as... Sign in to see full entry.