Wednesday, November 22, 2023

READ ACCOUNTS LIKE DETECTIVE STORIES


"SHE HAD BEEN TRAINED TO LOOK FOR ANAMOLIES"
-- The Silence of the Lambs,
crime novel by Thomas Harris whose heroine is a detective

Figuring out the past means acting like a detective, pondering what seems odd.

Clues can be customs or events that seem irrational or tangible elements, like a painting placed too high for viewing, urban voids too vast for traffic, a king replacing Jesus... 

Paris's rue de Belleville

Or they jump out from the narratives of historians and explorers... 

A library's history shelves
Map at the Paris Mission Center ("Procure des Missions")
Although they are buried in data. 

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