>> From: Dan Plante <danp@ampsc.com>
>> Date: Tuesday, March 25, 1997 6:09 PM
>>
>> Do you mean the simple concept of history itself, or the knowledge of
>> historical events (regardless of their accuracy), or history in the sense
>> that "The victors write the history books."?
>
>I'd say all of those are viruses. But history as the sequence of events
>that actually happened is not.
In other words: The past is not a virus, but history is.
The past is the object, history is the perception of (and around) it
Reed
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