The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent. Peter Conrad accidentaggrandizecircumstance Change image and share on social
Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose; also the first announcement of death. Peter Conrad announcementdeathfaith Change image and share on social
All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it, an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view. Peter Conrad anglecityindirect Change image and share on social