http://hughgreen.wordpress.com/2007/05/11/blinding-dates/ A Nursery Of Idleness and Insolence Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:25:34 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://hughgreen.wordpress.com/2007/05/11/blinding-dates/#comment-1522 Dublin Opinion » Blog Archive » Dating Your Decline Tue, 15 May 2007 16:24:20 +0000 http://hughgreen.wordpress.com/2007/05/11/blinding-dates/#comment-1522 [...] Hugh Green has an interesting post about the current obsession with dates. I was going to add a comment but I ended up writing this instead. “I have a problem with dates. When I read history, I rarely remember the dates mentioned. In fact, I go out of my way not to remember them. For me, what happened and how it happened is a lot more important than when it happened. It seems to me that chronology only comes into it when you want to consider how or if two or more events were interrelated. Or if you are Columbo.” [...] [...] Hugh Green has an interesting post about the current obsession with dates. I was going to add a comment but I ended up writing this instead. “I have a problem with dates. When I read history, I rarely remember the dates mentioned. In fact, I go out of my way not to remember them. For me, what happened and how it happened is a lot more important than when it happened. It seems to me that chronology only comes into it when you want to consider how or if two or more events were interrelated. Or if you are Columbo.” [...]

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