The Holdovers

There a nothing new in human experience. each generation thinks it invented debauchery or suffering or rebellion, but mans every impulse and appetite from the disgusting to the sublime in on display right here all around you.

So, before you dismiss somthing as boring or irrelevant, remember, if you truly want to understnd the present or yourself, you must being in the past. you see, history is not simply the study of the past. it is an explanation of the present.