"My idea of who or what it was, was vague. But I was comforted by the notion that nothing spiritual --and knowing was spiritual --was lost to us. That there was this continuous knowing . . .
"And as I drank a little more wine, and thought about it, and wrote about it, I realized it wasn't so much a belief of mine as it was a prejudice. I just felt that there was a continual awareness.
"And the history that I was writing was an imitation of it.
I tried to unite all things I had seen in my history, linking my observations of lands and people with all the written observations that had come down to me from the Greeks --from Xenophon and Herodotus, and Poseidonius --to make one continuous awareness of the world in my lifetime. It was a pale thing, a limited thing, compared to the true awaren
