I Don't Believe In An Afterlife. I

History Always Happens To Us And Nothing Ever Stays The Same.

I Don't Believe In An Afterlife. I Don't Believe In A Single Or Multiple Godhead. I Respect People Who Do, But I Don't Believe It Myself.

I've Lost Count Of The Interviews I've Done About My Illness And Its Relationship To My Ideas And Writing.

I Started Work On My First French History Book In 1969; On 'socialism In Provence' In 1974; And On The Essays In Marxism And The French Left In 1978. Conversely, My First Non-academic Publication, A Review In The 'tls', Did Not Come Until The Late 1980s, And It Was Not Until 1993 That I Published My First Piece In The 'new York Review.'

Today, Neither Left Nor Right Can Find Their Footing.