The silent record

"The historian’s avowed mission is to reduce the layers and broker the optimal relationship with the distant recorded past. But ultimately, history becomes an asymptote, a line approaching but never quite touching the past."

https://biblonia.com/2024/04/10/the-silent-record/

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