Posterity

By Iain Aschendale · Sep 30, 2018 · ·
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  1. During the sack of Constantinople in the Fourth Crusade (1202-1204), the plunderers:

    Richard Tillinghast, Istanbul: City of Forgetting and Remembering

    But...

    Will history remember as much about you in eight hundred years as it remembers of her?
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  1. GrahamLewis
    Why am I always a wet blanket to other people's blogs? (I do like your blog BTW) I get your point that history -- or more likely history wonks and a few university professors -- remember the image of "a prostitute" but I wonder and doubt if anyone even knows her name. Is that really remembering her?

    But at the same time, you are right, no one will remember any aspect of me in 800 years, assuming anyone is around to remember anything at that time.
  2. Iain Aschendale
    I think you and I operate, not on different wavelenghts, but on different antenna polarities.

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  3. GrahamLewis
    Which means absolutely nothing to me, thus proving your point, I guess.
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