History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.
Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.
History is like Santa Claus: a language construction. We have some registers about the existence of Santa and history - the presents under the tree, the archives - but none have really seen them.
A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.
I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned.
History is history. What is done is done.
It sometimes seems to me that the whole course of English history was one of accident, confusion, chance and unintended consequences - there's no real pattern.
History is history.
History is, of course, a made thing. It does not exist by itself in anything like a recognizable form.
What we normally define as history doesn't interest me. It's a constraint.
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