When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times (1997)
“The present has its élan because it is always on the edge of the unknown and one misunderstands the past unless one remembers that this unknown was once part of its nature.”
"Boris Pasternak: Unsafe Conduct", p. 14
The Myth Makers: European and Latin American Writers (1979)
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The Philosophy of Paine (1925)
Context: Tom Paine has almost no influence on present-day thinking in the United States because he is unknown to the average citizen. Perhaps I might say right here that this is a national loss and a deplorable lack of understanding concerning the man who first proposed and first wrote those impressive words, 'the United States of America.' But it is hardly strange. Paine's teachings have been debarred from schools everywhere and his views of life misrepresented until his memory is hidden in shadows, or he is looked upon as of unsound mind.
We never had a sounder intelligence in this Republic. He was the equal of Washington in making American liberty possible. Where Washington performed Paine devised and wrote. The deeds of one in the Weld were matched by the deeds of the other with his pen.
Source: Gastronomy or Geology? The Role of Nationalism in the Reconstruction of Nations. (1994), p. 18: As cited in: Öktem, Kerem. "Creating the Turk’s Homeland: Modernization, Nationalism and Geography in Southeast Turkey in the late 19 th and 20 th Centuries." Socrates Kokkalis Graduate Workshop. The City: Urban Culture, Architecture and Society. 2003.
“The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past.”
Source: "Some Perplexities about time: with an attempted solution" (1925), p. 150
Writing on medieval geography in: Mittman, Asa Maps and Monsters in Medieval England https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Maps_and_Monsters_in_Medieval_England/2ancAAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Natalia+Lozovsky&pg=PA27&printsec=frontcover (Taylor & Francis, 2013) p.27
On poetry in “Interview | Raymond Antrobus” https://www.thelondonmagazine.org/interview-poet-raymond-antrobus/ in the London Magazine (2019 Feb 20)