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Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts

by Christopher de Hamel

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“The archive imposes a startling contradiction: as it immerses and invades the reader, its vastness gives rise to a feeling of solitude.”
― Arlette Farge, The Allure of the Archives

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“The archive is an excess of meaning, where the reader experiences beauty, amazement, and a certain affective tremor.”
― Arlette Farge, The Allure of the Archives

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“The physical pleasure of finding a trace of the past is succeeded by doubt mixed with the powerless feeling of not knowing what to do with it.”
― Arlette Farge, The Allure of the Archives

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“You realize that it is an illusion to imagine that one could ever actually reconstruct the past.”
― Arlette Farge, The Allure of the Archives

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“The archives do not necessarily tell the truth, but [...] they tell of the truth.”
― Arlette Farge, The Allure of the Archives

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