BTW, here's a marvelous quote from The Machine Stops, by E.M. Forster:
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Your descendants will be even in a better position than you, for they will learn what I think you think, and yet another intermediate will be added to the chain. And in time there will come a generation that had got beyond facts, beyond impressions, a generation absolutely colourless, a generation seraphically free from taint of personality, which will see the French Revolution not as it happened, but as it would have happened, had it taken place in the days of the Machine.
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very good novellete BTW
can we ever get to the original sources of anything at all? how would we know it, when the original sources are lost in the sands of time and all we have is accounts of it from others?
cultural heritage is a series os mismatches on misquotations