"Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was."
The art of reading is to skip judiciously.
过去是一个陌生的国度；那里的人做事方式不同。
Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it.
历史不仅仅是关于过去；它是一个塑造我们当下和未来的活生生的实体。