" ... the job of ethnologist gradually taught me to think not in terms of decades and even centuries, but thousands of years, nay, tens of thousands of years, so when I say I think that in this century two or three thousand years if they know nothing ... We think of many things as important, but if you place them in time disappears. The fact remains that interest me. "
Claude Levi-Strauss, 28 November 1908 - October 30, 2009, Sagittarius.
Adapted from Republic of November 21, 2008, "An evening with the professor," by Bernardo Valli
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