“Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose?”
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History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.
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