"history is who you are in the dark"

OK, so that's a misquotation of Lord Worfin, but this article is one everyone should read (IMO). If you have to sit through the commercial, it's worth it.

an excellent essay

Let teenagers languish, therefore, in their sense of isolation, without outlet or nourishment, bereft of the only thing that makes it all bearable: knowing that somebody else has felt the way that you feel, has faced it, run from it, rued it, lamented it and transformed it into art; has been there, and returned, and lived, for the only good reason we have: to tell the tale. How confident we shall be, once we have done this, of never encountering the ugliness again! How happy our children will be, and how brave, and how safe!

by Michael Chabon, in the NYT

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