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“When I was a boy . . . I used to think that the priest’s voice was something like thunder, like the sky, like the seasons—that it helped the land, the crops, the health of the living and the dead. Now I saw that the dead were helping him. One shouldn’t grow up or know the world.”

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“History is often imagined as a series of events, unfolding one after the other like a sequence of falling dominoes. But most human experiences are processes, not events . . . Similarly, much of what some imagine as dichotomous turns out to be spectral . . . We love a narrative of the great individual whose life is shot through with major events and who turns out to be either a villain or a hero…” (77-78)