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Unabashed fetish practitioner



Why do people study/write/teach history?  What is the "value" of history?
Bfore you go spouting platitudes about being "doomed to repeat" and all
that, think about how one can honestly answer these questions. Unless I am
terribly mistaken, the answer is near the core of this current thread on our
beloved list.


I have no answer myself; I only know that I like it, and that others who
like it pay me to know about it and to find them materials that will help
them understand it.  They don't pay me to study the behavior patterns of
guys with leather elbow patches, the effect of subliminal messages on
reading room decorum, or the statistical analysis of retinal dilation
displayed by folks gazing at the Declaration of Independence.  I am glad
enough there are people who do these studies, just as much as I am glad that
I don't have to.

Kim (does not roll in historical documents, but does groove on them) Scott

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