Placenta/development

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“The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.”
—John Berger (b. 1926)

“I can see ... only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen.”
—H.A.L. (Herbert Albert Laurens)