PoMo Studies Hoax (gets taken seriously)

[jody2.718]

"Facts are but the Play-things of lawyers, --Tops and Hoops, forever a-spin... . Alas, the
Historian may indulge no such idle Rotating. History is no Chronology, for that is left to
lawyers, -- nor is it Remembrance, for Remembrance belongs to the People. History can
as little pretend to the Veracity of the one, as claim the Power of the other, -- her
Practitioners, to survive, must soon learn the arts of the quidnunc, spy, and Taproom
Wit,-- that there may ever continue more than one life-line back into a Past we risk, each
day, losing our forebears in forever, -- not a Chain of single Links, for one broken Link
could lose us All, -- rather, a great disorderly Tangle of Lines, long and short, weak and
strong, vanishing into the Mnemonick Deep, with only their Destination in common.
The Revd Wicks Cherrycoke, Christ and History"

(M&D, p349)

jody