butwewereanempire: But we were interested in how our lives could mean something to the past. We…

butwewereanempire:

But we were interested in how our lives could mean something to the past. We sailed into the past. We were young. We knew power and great finance were temporary things. We all slept with Herodotus. ‘For those cities that were great in earlier times must have become small…’

- Michael Ondaatje, from The English Patient

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