“When I go forwards, you go backwards
And somewhere we will meet”
Thom Yorke (1968) English musician, philanthropist and singer-songwriter
"Electioneering"
Lyrics, OK Computer (1997)
“If history moves forward, knowledge of it travels backwards, so that in writing of our own recent past we are continually meeting ourselves coming the other way.”
Afterword, p. 190
1980s, Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983)
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