A parallel tradition

http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1743898,00.html

TS Eliot argued in his famous essay, "Tradition and the Individual Talent", "you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead." Eliot did not find it preposterous "that the past should be altered by the present as much as the present is directed by the past."

＞カー『歴史とは何か』

A variety of sky-god worshippers with their numerous, mutually exclusive certainties (all of which we must "respect") appears to be occupying more and more of the space of public discourse. Increasingly, they seem to want to tell us how to live and think, or inflict upon us the strictures they choose to impose upon themselves.

Ian McEwanあんがい言うなあ。