And the book says, “We may be through with the past, but the past ain’t through with us.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
In what “book” does this quote appear? \u00a0After finding a clue on an archived thread that linked to a dead page that I found through the Wayback Machine that turned out to be a fake autobiography of one of the dead site’s editorial staff– well, I found it in an essay<\/a>:<\/p>\n The full text of “The Natural History of Nonsense”<\/a>\u00a0is available from a personal page on the history of Cape Cod. \u00a0The book itself is by renowned lexicographer\u00a0Bergen Evans<\/a>\u00a0and concerns superstition in modern times. \u00a0I think I’ll buy it. \u00a0Someday.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yesterday, I watched the second half of Magnolia, started the evening before. \u00a0I’ve watched it dozens of times, and it’s gone from “meh” to my top two favorite PT Anderson films. \u00a0There’s a quote heard throughout, and the last line for narrator Ricky Jay: And the book says, “We may be through with the past, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[56,57,59,58],"class_list":["post-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","tag-books","tag-film","tag-magnolia","tag-pta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fazigu.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fazigu.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fazigu.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fazigu.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fazigu.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fazigu.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":448,"href":"https:\/\/fazigu.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions\/448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fazigu.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fazigu.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fazigu.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Bergen](\"https:\/\/fazigu.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/BergenEvans-ANaturalHistoryOfNonsense-WeMayBeThroughWithThePastButThePastIsNotThroughWithUs-Magnolia.png\")
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