The historian Arnold Toynbee once remarked that those who revive old ideas give new meaning to seemingly dead notions, dabbling in the black art of necromancy. Like many of the people who will be mentioned in this rambling exploration into the dark and unexplored corners of history, both the kind you find in books and my own, he is dead. And yet he is far from gone…
I’m a historian (by trade and inclination) fascinated by the ideas and concepts of memory and time, so these will be major themes. Then again, who knows where creative evolution will take this living process of record and chronicle.
I’ve been a writer all my life, and have a store of material written by hand — a personal archive, if you will — that will also make its way into the experiment. I plan to play with the ebb and flow of time in this endeavor.
A modest beginning, to be sure, but a beginning nonetheless. Let’s see where this takes us…
June 15, 2006 at 12:45 am |
ps. You still owe me a carton of cigarettes.
June 13, 2007 at 12:20 pm |
[...] June 13th, 2007 Looks like it has been a year since my first post. Crazy. Lots of ebbs and flows, adventures, new horizons. Some high (and low) points [...]
December 3, 2008 at 11:57 am |
[...] began with the intention of doing certain things — talking about history and time, for instance. This I have done, though certainly not exclusively. Other things were not planned, [...]
June 10, 2009 at 2:33 pm |
Did you ever give Dianna her carton of ciggies?
~m
June 10, 2009 at 4:44 pm |
MM: Umm…No.