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    Ruins

    Ruins are the remains of place. Interpretation of place from ruins is subjective, just as the sculpting of a face upon a skull requires artistic judgment. Visitors who honor a ruin with imagination earn a broad license. Within minutes, a visitor may craft a tale that evokes more feeling than any historian's account. Is it irresponsible? Perhaps. Remember, though, that the historian's truth is an industrial invention. For most of our time here, storytellers read the land and created history for those sitting around the fire on this or that night. The notion that there might be a standard truth was foreign to them. Truth was mutable. History, alien. Lakes, for instance, rose from the broken bodies of fallen heroes. And ruins ... well, there was always a good tale behind a ruin. Even when there wasn't.

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    Last updated: Wed, 04/04/2007 - 04:01