I'm Not A Historian But I Can

History Unravels; Circumstances, Following Their Natural Inclination, Prefer To Remain Ravelled.

And In Another Year Everything Will Be Different Yet Again. It Is Always Like That, And Always Will Be; You Are Forever Standing On The Brink, In A Place Where You Cannot See Ahead; There Is Nothing Of Which To Be Certain Except What Lies Behind. This Should Be Terrifying, But Somehow It Is Not.

I'm Not A Historian But I Can Get Interested - Obsessively Interested - With Any Aspect Of The Past, Whether It's Palaeontology Or Archaeology Or The Very Recent Past.

There's A Preoccupation With Memory And The Operation Of Memory And A Rather Rapacious Interest In History.

I Didn't Want It To Be A Book That Made Pronouncements.