with a bit of what one of my history profs called "kentucky windage."
Remembering the idea that without an agenda there might not be speech of any
kind, you must take into account the slant of ANY account (even that from
inside a culture) just as when you aim a rifle you must take into account the
direction of the wind. It isn't that we know NOTHING, but that what we know
comes from a skewed perspective. There is a kernel of truth even in psychosis;
there is a kernel of truth in the Roman view too. CERTAINLY the
"Romanticization" of the druid culture Hengist spoke of was not the Roman view.
But my guess is that the two extremes, when brought together might illuminate
something or other. We have little archeological evidence of the early Anglo
Saxons either--and they have been both villanized and romanticized--and yet I
don't think we say that we know nothing about
them.
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I have not so far left the coasts of life
To travel inland, that I cannot hear
That murmur of the outer Infinite
Which unweaned babies smile at in their sleep
When wondered at for smiling
EBB
