• merc@sh.itjust.works
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    11 hours ago

    So, you think anybody who writes a book about history is a historian? No wonder you are so lost.

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      11 hours ago

      No, I think anyone who writes a book of historical facts (hence the name “history book”) based on research is a historian. And if I were lost, that’d fall under cartography, not history. See, cartography is the study of making maps. Maps are to cartographers as history books are to historians. Make sense?

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          9 hours ago

          Damn, selective reading is a tough diagnosis. Is there a pattern, like you only understand every other word or something, or is it just completely random?