To be a member of any human community is to situate oneself with 
regard to one's (its) past, if only by rejecting it. The past is 
therefore a permanent dimension of the human consciousness, an 
inevitable component of the institutions, values and other patterns of 
human society. The problem for historians is to analyse the nature of 
this "sense of the past" in society and to trace its changes and 
transformations. 
--Eric Hobsbawm (1997a:10) 
 
  After all, the only reason for life or a story is "What Happened 
Next?" 
--Jack Kerouac (1995:266) 

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