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You had to be here then to be able to don’t see it and don’t hear it now. But I was here then, and I don’t see it now . . .

—Ernest J. Gaines, A Gathering of Old Men

. . . our assumption that everything is provisional and soon to be superseded, that the attainment of goods we have never yet had, rather than the defence and conservation of those we have already, is the cardinal business of life . . .

—C. S. Lewis, “De Descriptione Temporum,” Selected Literary Essays

My view is that all artists, whether they know it or not, whether they would repudiate the notion or not, are in fact “showers forth” of things which tend to be impoverished, or misconceived, or altogether lost or willfully set aside in the preoccupations of our present intense technological phase, but which, none the less, belong to man.

So that when asked to what end does my work proceed I can do no more than answer . . . thus: Perhaps it is in the maintenance of some sort of single plank in some sort of bridge.

—David Jones, The Dying Gaul

We are responsible for what we remember.

—John Lukacs, talking with students at the University of Louisville, March 9, 2011