“The reverberation often exceeds through silence the sound that sets it off; the reaction occasionally outdoes by way of repose the event that stimulated it; and the past not uncommonly takes a while to happen, and some long time to figure out.” WayLongHappensPastSoundSilenceEventsFiguresLong TimeReactionsExceedReposeReverberation Book:Sometimes a Great Notion Source: Sometimes a Great Notion
“The only difference between the narrator of contemporary affairs and the ordinary historian is that moral judgments about the present provoke fiercer reactions and have more immediately practical implications than moral judgments about the past.” PastDifferencesMoralJudgmentOrdinaryAffairPracticalsReactionsContemporaryHistorianProvokingImplicationsNarratorsMoral Judgment Author:Geoffrey Barraclough