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“Memory is not just “what has happened” in the strict and factual sense. Two people in the same place at the same time will remember differently, not because we are unreliable narrators at a crime scene, but because what is significant means something different to us all.”

"I know that if an architect of unrest were to design a world guaranteed to destroy the mental, spiritual, emotional, imaginative and creative life of human beings everywhere - that world would be this one."

It is so fun to read this while I'm in the middle of my (slow) multi-year reading of the complete Thousand and One Nights.

Scheherazade forever!