Helen Castor: belief

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…The stories remain unfinished. There’re various attempts ex post to add onto the canon, but the story just keeps on going. Like English history, right? Like all of history. I think these are such interesting times to be thinking about the past in. Not very comfortable times, but if ever we needed a reminder that people in the past had no idea what was coming next, we’re getting it now, and it produces interesting perspectives even on much more recent parts of the past. I recently sat down with my son, who’s 23 now, to watch Being John Malkovich, which I hadn’t seen since it came out. I realized, when I went to look exactly when it came out, that it came out in the same year as The Matrix. I hadn’t clocked that at the time. In retrospect, watching Being John Malkovich again, now it seems to me to be far more prescient about the world we live in now — That’s right.…

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