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history
consists of a swarm of narratives, narratives that
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are passed
on, made up, listened to and acted out; the
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people does
not exist as subject; it is a mass of thousands
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of little
stories that are at once futile serious, that are
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sometimes
attracted together to form bigger stories, and
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which
sometimes disintegrate into drifting elements, but
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which
usually hold together well enough to form what we
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call the culture
of a civil society.
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