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| The unpredictability of the past |
You cannot know what the
past will do.
For me, as a writer of ancient Egypt-based fiction, the past is not dead
and gone, not settled dust. It’s always changing, doing things.
The past will change in our view of it, it will change
our view of now, and it will change our view of tomorrow.
It can and will surprise
us.
The past is a dynamic
always working on us, pushing forward like a wave. While the future by
comparison is the blank space ahead of the wave, theoretical potentiality,
inert and, in a sense, dead.
The past has a way
of doing things that nobody can guess.
We make a mistake to bury it.
What does the past
do for you?
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