The past, which as always did not know the future, acted in ways that ask to be imagined before they are condemned. Or even simplified.
Paul Fussell (1924-2012) American cultural and literary historian, author, academic
“Thank God for the Atom Bomb,” The New Republic (26 Aug 1981)
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