...that it is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.

Brian Friel
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  1. Dancing as if language had surrendered to movement - as if this ritual, this wordless ceremony, was now the way to speak, to whisper private and sacred things, to be in touch with some otherness. Dancing as if the very heart of life and all...

  2. ...that it is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.

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