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"Archaeology is fun, or it is nothing"
Gary Shapiro
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From: "Robert Keeler" <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 5:39:21 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: quotation collection
Hi, Kris,
Some I throw out to students in my classes are:
"The past is a foreign country. ?They do things differently there." ?L. P.
Hartley
"What is past is prologue." ?William Shakespeare (or whomever you think wrote
all those plays and sonnets)
"The past is not dead. ?It's not even past." ?William Faulkner
"Shall we never, never get rid of this past? ?It lies upon the present like a
giant's dead body." ?Nathanial Hawthorne
"The distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly
persistent illusion." ?Albert Einstein
"The plow zone is the mist which separates us from the Seventeenth Century."
?Garry Wheeler Stone
There's another one from Faulkner about the ability of any Southern boy being
able to conjure at any time the moment from the past just before the beginning
of Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg. ?I don't recall it exactly, but I'm sure it
could be easily found.
Sorry not to include complete citations. ?Sounds like an interesting collection
to build!
Best wishes,
Robert Keeler
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From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of K. Kris
Hirst
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 2:08 PM
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Subject: Re: quotation collection
Hi all:
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Forgive my longtime lurker status, things being what they are these days; I
also apologize for multiple mailings of this post. As some of you might
know, I have a large stash of archaeology quotations on my website here:
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http://archaeology.about.com/od/quotations/a/quotations.htm
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Mitch Allen has convinced me that a collection of quotations about the past
and archaeology might make an interesting and useful book for his Left Coast
Press. I'd like to add more to my collection anything that y'all might
suggest. I'd need a full citation--but I'm willing to do some searching ?if
it's a keeper. ?
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So--does anybody have any additional quotes that you've loved and used over
the years? I'm thinking the kind of stuff that you print out and attach to
your peg board. If so, send them along! Please pass this on to anyone who
might be interested.
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Much thanks in advance,
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Kris
K. Kris Hirst
Guide to Archaeology
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