“The claim "oh, that's ancient history" is almost always a wish, am anxious attempt to put a boundary of time around some event that really is not over at all; it is a bid to silence the past.”
Robert A. Orsi“The claim "oh, that's ancient history" is almost always a wish, am anxious attempt to put a boundary of time around some event that really is not over at all; it is a bid to silence the past.”
Robert A. Orsi, The Madonna of 115th Street: Faith and Community in Italian Harlem, 1880-1950