tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3200827855904170988.post1450218712373182664..comments2023-10-08T22:27:49.730-04:00Comments on The Tumbrel Diaries: The hyacinthine colour of the distanceAngus Trumblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03350040368046577016noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3200827855904170988.post-38990610908748839712011-07-15T18:28:46.782-04:002011-07-15T18:28:46.782-04:00This is among my favorite quotes. I don't hav...This is among my favorite quotes. I don't have Wood's book, bu is the quote to which Ed refers the following: "The dead were and are not. Their place knows them no more and is ours today...The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this earth, once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, as actual as we are today, thinking their own thoughts, swayed by their own passions, but now all gone, one generation vanishing into another, gone as utterly as we ourselves shall shortly be gone, like ghosts at cockcrow." That's one of my other truly favorite quotations.Angela and Melindahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01595787896658046091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3200827855904170988.post-6648339637916334502011-04-01T12:43:33.203-04:002011-04-01T12:43:33.203-04:00Angus, what a wonderful quote, I am so glad that s...Angus, what a wonderful quote, I am so glad that someone else has noted it and from the same source where I first found it. You might look back to page xxv in Wood's book and cite the equally poignant quote from Trevelyan.<br /><br />Thank you for a excellent essay.Reynaud l'Loaghtanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17106380775111449123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3200827855904170988.post-90701478799365154962011-02-20T17:14:50.233-05:002011-02-20T17:14:50.233-05:00Quite so, Tristan!Quite so, Tristan!Angus Trumblehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03350040368046577016noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3200827855904170988.post-27276315530465008182011-02-20T07:25:21.759-05:002011-02-20T07:25:21.759-05:00there ain't no sanity clause, so it is ever ou...there ain't no sanity clause, so it is ever our duty to bear witness to such sweetness and wisdom as we may encountertristanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13268216095376583052noreply@blogger.com