History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

We make a mistake to condescend to the past as if it were preparatory to our own time.

Time seems to me a drift, a shifting of sand. And my mind is shifting with it. I am wearing away.

A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.

Banks and churches and courtrooms all depend on the appurtenances of theatre. On illusion. Banks, the illusion of stability and honourable dealings to the rot and corruption of capitalist exploitation. Churches the illusion of sacred sanctuary of purposes of pacifying social discontent. Courtrooms of course designed to promote the illusion of solemn justice. If there was true justice why would such trappings be necessary? Wouldn't a table and chairs and an ordinary room serve just as well?

I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority.

There is really no fiction or non-fiction; there is only narrative. One mode of perception has no greater claim on the truth than the other; that the distance has perhaps to do with distance - narrative distance - from the characters; it has to do with the kind of voice that is talking, but it certainly hasn't to do with the common distribution between fact and imagination.