Re: History of ...

Well, I think he meant this statement literally, not metaphorically.
We derive history from texts or other linguistic mediums.

On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Bob wrote:

> >Historians, as Gadamer puts it, immerse themselves in the
> >stream of history - history is like one extremely large text,
> >and its events and epochs constitute chapters or books.
> 
> And yet, "history" can hardly be reduced to a diachronic/linear 
> model.  While indeed it unfolds in time, it does not appear to me to 
> be a text, which to me implies being read diachronically (granted, 
> you may skip around, check the index, check the footnotes), but the 
> experience to me inferred by "reading" is one of diachronicity. 
> Rather I find history to be more synchronous, hence more like a 
> matrix.
> 
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