"History is a hammock for swinging and a game for playing. A cat's cradle...there is a certain seductiveness about dead things. You can ill treat, alter and recolour what's dead. It won't complain"
Jeanette Winterson.
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Unless of course that thing has an estate. Then its lawyers complain.
ha. very nice.
history is a fiction, ondaatje says, written by the winners.
History, manipulated is sometimes the best kind.
:)
ha! i think we've knocked this idea around many times on this here blog.
and in that vein, ondaatje also says of his ancestral homeland:
"In Sri Lanka, a well-told lie is worth a thousand facts."
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