• It is not the literal past, the ''facts'' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.

  Brian Friel
  Irish playwright 1929-2015
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1. embodied
2. language
3. images

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It is not the literal past, the ''facts'' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language. by : Brian Friel

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