Originally Posted by
Karen
Nancy got it, but is deferring to the highest point-getting, since she entered the game so late! It was:
There are two ways of looking at the past. There's "artifact history"
and "ritual history." Most of us are familiar with artifact history. New
England brims with house museums filled with bed warmers and boot hooks
and forgotten china patterns. They're durable curiosities, encrusted
with the special sort of patina that results from the glazed looks of
countless half-interested tourists. Ritual history, however, is far more
perishable and elusive. It's that continuation of an action performed by
one's grandparents and their grandparents. Ritual history tends to erode
less noticeably * around the margins at first, like the banks of a
river. Eventually the river shifts course, and few remember how it once
flowed. The next generation thinks the river has always flowed that way.
by Wayne Curtis
happylabs will you host next? You have way more points than anyone else!
