Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis.

Old reference books are like tree rings. Without them, there'd be no way to know what a tree had lived through.

In antihistory, time is an illusion.

Republicans were more pro-choice than Democrats up until the late 1980s.

Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis.

Epidemiologists study patterns in order to combat infection. Stories about epidemics follow patterns, too. Stories arent often deadly, but they can be virulent: spreading fast, weakening resistance, wreaking havoc.

History is a long and endlessly interesting argument, where evidence is everything and storytelling is everything else.