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Having written a book about lost memories and social justice, I would be remiss not to remember those individuals who have helped me to create this work. There are so many persons to whom I’m indebted and so many I would like to thank publicly. Unfortunately, I can name only a few here. I am very appreciative of the support I have received over the years from my colleagues and friends, including Royal Rhodes, Howard Sacks, and Jane Brailove Rutkoff. They have been invaluable in providing me with the inspiration and advice needed to complete this project. Students at Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, have also contributed, especially to the editing of this work: John West, Sarah Buek, Carolyn Wendler, Doran Danoff, Jason Rabin, Alisha Dall’Osto, Alexander Klein, Mary Thuell-Sledd, and Michael Cole. It is their enthusiasm inside and outside the classroom that encourages my effort and propels my imagination. Finally, without the technical aid of Eric Holdener in the Computer Center, my Luddite inclinations and refusals to move beyond Word Perfect 5.1 could not have been sustained, nor could this book have been written. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS O land of Ionia, they’re still in love with you, their souls still keep your memory. —Constantine Cavafy, “Ionic” Beyond that, my vision weakens, but I see, at a great distance, a new world stirring in the ruins, stirring clumsily but in hopefulness, seeking its lost and legendary treasures. —James Hilton, Lost Horizon A person who has no horizon does not see far enough and hence overvalues what is nearest to him. . . . In the sphere of historical understanding, too, we speak of horizons . . . to see the past in its own terms, not in terms of our contemporary criteria and prejudices but within its own historical horizon. . . . In the process of understanding a real fusion of horizons occurs. . . . —Hans-Georg Gadamer, Truth and Method I have found confirmation that forgotten memories were not lost. They were in the patient’s possession and were ready to emerge in association to what was still known by him; but there was some force that prevented them from becoming conscious and compelled them to remain unconscious. —Sigmund Freud, Five Lectures on Psycho-Analysis Only with the look toward the uncertain, the anxious care, the prospective view, the hope at worry’s threshold, the fear of the future—only then does that which distinguishes man begin. —Erhart Kästner, “Dog in the Sun” ...

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