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This reads as a comment on how familiarity can dull curiosity, because people tend to treat the past as settled. It can be taken to mean that history has to be made vivid again, and it lands when a writer or teacher has to make old events feel unfinished, surprising, and worth asking about now.
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Books by Tom Reiss
The Black Count
2012
The Orientalist
2006