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while i complain of being able to glimpse no more than the shadow of the past, i may be insensitive to reality as it is taking shape at this very moment, since i have not reached the stage of development at which i would be capable of perceiving it. a few hundred years hence, in this same place, another traveller, as despairing as myself, will mourn the disappearance of what i might have seen, but failed to see.
— claude lévi-strauss, tristes tropiques, ch. 4 p.43 (1955)
