At Eighty Things Do Not

I Lack What The English Call Character, By Which They Mean The Power To Refrain.

Life Is Like A Box Of Sardines And We Are All Looking For The Key.

[talking About The Holocaust] 'but To Put Something In Context Is A Step Towards Saying It Can Be Understood And That It Can Be Explained. And If It Can Be Explained That It Can Be Explained Away.' 'but This Is History. Distance Yourselves. Our Perspective On The Past Alters. Looking Back, Immediately In Front Of Us Is Dead Ground. We Don't See It, And Because We Don't See It This Means That There Is No Period So Remote As The Recent Past. And One Of The Historian's Jobs Is To Anticipate What Our Perspective Of That Period Will Be... Even On The Holocaust.

Your Whole Life Is On The Other Side Of The Glass. And There Is Nobody Watching.

Life Is Rather Like A Tin Of Sardines - We're All Of Us Looking For The Key.