The Day is for the LivingAnd history is not the past-it is the method we have evolved of organizing our ignorance of the past .It's the record of what's left on the record .It's the plan of the positions taken ,when we stop the dance to note them down .It's what's left in the sieve when the centuries have run through it--a few stones ,scraps of writing , scraps of cloth .It is no more the " past"a birth certificate is a birth ,or a script is a performance ,or a map is a journey .