Tales of Nevèrÿon by Samuel R. Delany5/13/2023 ![]() That we have any of the tools of historical analysis means that, on some level, history is finished. ![]() All men and women have the right to essay such mastery over their own lives.’ The second message, inextricably bound up with the first, is as much a lie: ‘History,’ it tells us, ‘has already been negotiated, so that beyond a certain point any attempt to know more is at best error and at worst sedition. And because history is never finished, those miseries can be interrogated, alleviated, and the situations that comprise and promote them can be changed. It can be untangled, understood, and the miseries of our entrapment in it can be explained. One is true: ‘History,’ it tells us, ‘is intellectually negotiable. ![]() ![]() That benevolent, oppressive, insistent voice, droning on before those glimmering, luminous images-the voice of the master-always and forever conveys two messages. ![]()
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