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18/8/01: tact and the past's intactness.(Literature)(Critical Essay)
THE PROBLEM is to imagine a bygone person or society with a justice that is sufficient to the past, not a reflector-plate of the present. To do this requires the out-of-body projections familiar to conscientious character-novelists.
A First World War soldier comes to the trench hell inured to the everyday hardships he and his forebears found tolerable, not from the retrospective spectacle we find intolerable. The configuration of obedience and authority in his mind, or that of his scullery-maid wife, are native to their condition and could no more look at the reconfiguration of obedience and authority in our minds as they could have accurately guessed the texture of the moon's surface. (A comprehensive History of Obedience from the trees to IT might well encompass most of what has happened in the human story.)
The past is another country, and as foreigners who visit it, the quality we novelists and historians most need is tact when we parley and fossick.
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