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January 28, 2006
History et al.
History is what people of the past chose to tell us about their past
History is an impression of the past
History is the only version of the past we have
History is the subjective take on what happened
Nothing written can be objective, this includes history.
History is the science of forcing your view of what happend in the past on other people
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I had a brush with celebrity: had Chelo Kabab with some of the most well known scholars of Iranian history and literature today. One of them has been writing for the past 55 years!
Life is good... ό βίοσ κάλοσ έστι
Greek is hard... ή 'Ελλινική δίσκολη έστι...
Posted by Khodadad at January 28, 2006 06:22 PM
Comments
Well, I will certainly not presume to tell a historian what history is! :)
I enjoyed reading the article about chello kabab. It sounds delicious! I hope that I can try it some day.
Posted by: David at January 28, 2006 10:36 PM
Just... just as much as Persia is a Chelo Kebab, History is an emancipatory cultural practice (ha!), a recreation of well-informed fallacies, an obduration of emotional echoes, an academic masturbation, the idyllic transposition of ego to factual eagerness, the correct guess of Descartes, a pineal compulsion, Homero’s joke, wanna-be child of Marilyn; history is the rumble fish of Rusty James and it is the stone -or the bridge- of Izzy and Lulu. Oh, and the Welsh, the Brave New Welsh...
Posted by: Santiago de Diego at February 2, 2006 12:50 PM