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"every rebel just a rebel in a story."
--linton kwesi johnson
event?
what is an event?
where does an event stop and start?
history?
which one? is there only a single history? according to who?
if there is a single history, you would think that an Important Event (whatever that means) would reveal its significance by shifting the understanding of time.
if that is the criterion, then BCE/AD....
but of course, christians foisted this on the rest of us.
any claim that there is a single history is therfore already balled up with that prticular religious ideology and its pretensions to be other than a particular religious ideology.
it does not require a rocket scientist to see that for christians, the jesus story would be a significant sequence of events.
by the way, what do you imagine year 0 meant to the people who lived through it?
do you think they addressed letters to each other "24 april, 0" for example?
how did they know that it was year 0?
what would it have been like to live through the Zero?
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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