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One of the benefits of reading broadly, is making connections where you could not. On my last blog post, I wrote about Isabel Allende and her history with censorship. While reading “A History of Reading” by Steven R. Fischer, I made some notes about how censorship is interwined with our history of writing and reading. But most interestlingly, I thought about how our past is mostly imagined by those in possesion of the writing. Where kings and clans defaced temples, scrolls and tablets, rewriting history in their favor. Controlled knowledge overwriting facts. Facts, are a modern idea; for what mattered was who controlled the narrative, ficticious or not. Our past is most likely a work of fiction, filled with magic, chants, rituals and prayers; stories of glory and winnings, the loosing parties wasted to echoes of time, echoes we hear again and again with each new rise of power. What was real? What is real? In a thousand years, our history will be fiction. #100words_100days #reading…

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