George Orwell (1903–1950) English author and journalist
"London Letter" in Partisan Review (Winter 1945)
“An inert historical fact is any fact about a perfectly ordinary arrangement of matter in the world at some point in the past that is no longer discernible, a fact that has left no footprints at all in the world today.”
Source: Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking (2013), p. 69
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