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by Quinn · Published February 5, 2016 · Last modified May 12, 2026
Beginning a series of copy-pastes of my comments posted on Google+, since few people read G+, and the comments are usually buried so deep that even fewer people will read them, and the ones I pick are usually worth a wider audience. Like fazigu.org. Yeah. I probably have a larger audience than Google’s social network. SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP. Anyhoo, this was one of those flash-polls on the Star Wars group. Two buttons with two logos: Disney and Lucasfilm...
Yesterday, I watched the second half of Magnolia, started the evening before. I’ve watched it dozens of times, and it’s gone from “meh” to my top two favorite PT Anderson films. There’s a quote heard throughout, and the last line for narrator Ricky Jay: And the book says, “We may be through with the past, but the past ain’t through with us.” In what “book” does this quote appear? After finding a clue on an archived thread that linked to...
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3 responses to “This Book Said The Past Ain’t Through With Us”
Gosh, I wish I would have had that inomrfation earlier!
Hey, I wondered, too, what book was being referenced. The quote sounds like something a great philosopher or writer of fiction would say.
Wanna chime in and say that the AA Big Book is often referred to as “the book” and it has this line in it.