Guardians of Memory
The Harper’s Podcast
Preserving the Past
I think it's a really important question, and i think it's one that touches all of us. I have a file that has the letters that i wrote back and forth in parents when i was in college. There is no such thing now. The fear is that peoplewil stop paying attention to the past because they're so consumed with the deluge of information in the present. And you know, anybody who spends five minutes on twitter knows what that's like. And it's addictive and it's fascinating, and it's also efemeral. Yes, i think there's a parallel here with in the piece, i mentioned columba practising a kind of monastic
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