austindoherty's review against another edition
4.0
"In Masharif, you say: "Geography is stronger in history than history in geography." What do you mean by that?"
"It's a defense of place, for place, in itself, is neutral despite a thousand years of wind and rain. Place receives all those who come. It's cynical. I was talking about place, which is stronger than all that happens on the land in the historical process. History is a point of observation, of ghosts, of the "I," of the Other, in a complicated human procession."
"It's a defense of place, for place, in itself, is neutral despite a thousand years of wind and rain. Place receives all those who come. It's cynical. I was talking about place, which is stronger than all that happens on the land in the historical process. History is a point of observation, of ghosts, of the "I," of the Other, in a complicated human procession."
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