Part of our attraction to the idea of 'legacy' that @GodDoesnt addresses in Life in Light of Death?
Gone but not forgotten?
Give it time. https://twitter.com/TheSickDrawings/status/793973470359130112 …
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I used to spend a lot of time here - early 16th century Moot Hall, Aldeburgh - with a deeply sad sense of my own temporariness.pic.twitter.com/K2PPVqRnVJ
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I think a lot of our love of history is to do with that. A wish to position ourselves in a long line of life & extend our story.
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In the study of manuscripts & early print books, they warn against 'fetishising the book/MS.' Novices awed to be in their presence = bad.
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I think it speaks to a core psychological need. "I'm connected to the minds & hands of long-gone ppl. They're not really gone!" But they are
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The ideas are not gone. And that really is a kind of life after death.
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For a short while, yes. Then they'll be gone too.
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