The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there
L.P. Hartley, The Go between (1953), 1
Two points:
1. I hadn't ever realised this was from a novel as recent as the 50s, but have now discovered it. It's a great line, one every historian who is asked to demonstrate relevance of their work would do well to reply with.
2. Reading the book, it astonished me how many people commented on the Yellow Pages advert that refers to J.R. Hartley. That ad was first shown in 1983! Extraordinary.
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