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People will often say, 'If you could be with Lincoln for dinner, what would you want to ask him? What would be the unanswered question?'
And I know I should be asking him, 'OK, suppose you had not been killed, how would you have dealt with the South? How would you have dealt with Reconstruction and all the controversies that arose?'
But I know that if I really had him for dinner one night, I would simply ask him, 'Tell me a story, Mr. Lincoln.' Because then I would see him coming alive.
He laughed so hard when he told one of his funny stories, his eyes would twinkle. And then I'd know that the Lincoln I knew -- who was somehow able in the worst days of the war to dispel the anxiety of his Cabinet members by his humor and his life-affirming sense of storytelling -- then I’d know I would have seen him alive.
-Doris Kearns Goodwin, Presidential Episode 16
This was where I had to stop the Lincoln episode at the end of my commute, and as I pulled into the parking lot I said to myself, "Wow, that's lovely." A little schmaltzy, perhaps, but I think it gets to the core of why people study history. Sure, there's the intellectual impulse to analyze and understand events with the benefit of hindsight, but deep down, the heart of historical study is a desire to connect with people. To bridge the gulf of time and space and get to know people despite the fact that they lived in a completely different century.
History's not just dry lists of dates and names and theories. It's people. It's personalities. It's quirks and memories and stories. It's knowing that a historical figure isn't just a face on a monument, or a source of information, but a guy who can tell really funny stories. And I wanted to share this quote because it really understands the humanity of history in a way I rarely see expressed.
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whimsical and flower, for the wip word ask game!
no instances for whimsical. in casual conversation, you may observe me speak like our friend bertram wilberforce wooster, but I do not do that when I am writing ...most of the time.
foth tam lin au:
Now, the sunlight tracking against his shoulders was of a warmth earnestly sought, as pleasurable as the similar heat of Ewen’s hands against his arms and the burn across the back of his calves as they collided with sun-warmed stone. It was easy enough to want to keep this moment under glass, to dry and press it like a summer flower, but it was yet living, in all its heart-pounding, searing vividity.
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