If We Had Not Met, That Day,

Mythology Is Much Better Stuff Than History. It Has Form; Logic; A Message.

Getting To Know Someone Else Involves Curiosity About Where They Have Come From, Who They Are.

I'm Not An Historian And I'm Not Wanting To Write About How I Perceive The Social Change Over The Century As A Historian, But As Somebody Who's Walked Through It And Whose Life Has Been Dictated By It Too, As All Our Lives Are.

We All Need A Past - That's Where Our Sense Of Identity Comes From.

And In Another Year Everything Will Be Different Yet Again. It Is Always Like That, And Always Will Be; You Are Forever Standing On The Brink, In A Place Where You Cannot See Ahead; There Is Nothing Of Which To Be Certain Except What Lies Behind. This Should Be Terrifying, But Somehow It Is Not.