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- Title: Another Country (Essay)
- Author : Traffic (Parkville)
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Reference,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 349 KB
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The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. L P Hartley, The Go-Between. (1) At first glance, this quotation has the rather mothballed dignity of a platitude. Who, after all, needs to be told that the past is distinct from the present--a distinction without which enquiring into history would be like trying to learn a language that we already knew? But Hartley's statement expresses a thought that only time, carelessness and a forgetting of context has let ossify into a cliche. (2) In order to retrieve this thought, we should try to think about what these words entail: the past as another country in the way America is another country for Henry James' Europeans, as Arabia (a dream country, a hope of a country) is for T E Lawrence and the Arab Revolt, the way East and West Berlin are other countries in John Le Carre's Cold War novels.