As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes.

“We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an an…”

“Her face might be kindly if she would smile. But the frown isn't personal: it's…”

“But who can remember pain, once it's over?”

“We get along by a symbiotic adjustment of habits and with a minimum of that pal…”