"In fiction, the principles are given, to find the facts: in history, the facts are given, to find the principles; and the writer who does not explain the phenomena as well as state them performs only one half of his office."
Thomas Babington Macaulay, "History," Edinburgh Review, 1828
Friday, March 18, 2011
I Still Hate This Shit (things I'd rather be thinking and writing about)
I still hate this shit: i.e. one has to write about political issues when they are current, but there is much else that legitimately commands our attention, and I'm looking forward to getting back to it.
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