Posts with Tag:  cultural amnesia

On the Trail of History

Posted on October 08th, 2009 in Archives

If history may be said to be the memory of the human race, it seems subject to many of the same failings of accuracy and interpretation. We see this even in our most recent history: for example a national self-image embraced by some which holds America to be a militaristic warrior-race which “won” WWII, rather [...]

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The Looking Glass of History is a Mirror

Posted on June 06th, 2009 in About the Trilogy, Selected

I recently wrote that the spark to my writing “Eclipsed by Shadow” was triggered by the corporatization of Harvard Square and the loss of its venerable old bookstores. It was alarmingly easy to relate ancient nomadic destruction of religious settlements to the commercial invasion of these hallowed shelves. Both invaders had as their object mere [...]

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