Weirdly, the past starts to be about something else. It becomes about style in a way that it wasn't about, and I don't mean writing style, but cultural style.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images.
The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.
The beauty of the past belongs to the past.
It is clear that when you write a story that takes place in the past, you try to show what really happened in those times. But you are always moved by the suspicion that you are also showing something about our contemporary world.
They say every writer really just writes about one thing over and over. I guess my one thing is how the past impacts the present.
I just think that some version of the past in our culture is going to rise up and become dominant.
The past is where its supposed to be.
The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.
The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present.
I've never been nostalgic, personally or politically - if the past was so great, how come it's history?
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