a geography of secrets - frederick reuss

"We live on a molten sphere with a thin crust orbiting the sun. Every event that occurs on it takes on a nearly infinite  number of simultaneous meanings."

From up close, war is always about nothing. For people who experience war, there is only confusion and forgetting. It's the ones who were never there, the ones who come later, who always decide what happened. They're the ones who write the histories, erect the monuments and memorials. Make up the meaning. The cliche that history forgotten is history repeated." He smiled and shook his head. "Well, the problem is precisely what it is that is remembered... The past is a mental thing. It doesn't exist."

"we are all invisible to ourselves as to those whose paths cross and whose lives touch ours in ways we will never know."