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Touching the past

December 30, 2011, by JimC

Bob Boze Bell at True West Magazine had this epigraph on his blog and it resonated so strongly I had to post it here:

“A feeling of immediate contact with the past is a sensation as deep as the purest enjoyment of art; it is an almost ecstatic sensation of no longer being myself, of overflowing into the world around me, of touching the essence of things, of through history experiencing the truth.”—Johan Huizinga, historian

That’s the high I’ve chased ever since I can remember…

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Comments

  1. Oscar Case says

    December 30, 2011 at 12:24 pm

    It is what gives me the feeling that I was born too late.

    Reply
  2. Le Loup says

    December 31, 2011 at 6:58 pm

    I will use that quote if I may, what great words, and so true.
    Much appreciated.
    Keith.
    A Woodsrunner’s Diary.

    Reply
    • JimC says

      January 2, 2012 at 6:08 am

      By all means — spread it around. I think we all “get it.”

      Reply

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