"There are a lot of loosers, people removed from history as soon as they flatter themselves they can make it. Today, in 1995, six years on from 1989, it is of course necessary to identify Chai Ling, one of the first voices heard on these pages, as a student leader at Tiananmen Square; it was necessary to do so in 1989. I don't know how many years will pass before it will be necessary to identify Tiananmen Square; plenty of people, all over the world, for all kinds of reasons, are working hard to ensure that it is not very many."

Edit 22.1.: "History is more or less bunk" ist passenderweise ein Zitat von Henry Ford, wie ich in einem bei Marcus (1997), 44f. abgedruckten Brief von Stanley Booth an den Threepenny Review vom 21.12.1988 entnehme. Wie auf dieser Seite steht, sagte Ford das in einem Interview mit Charles N. Wheeler, veröffentlicht in der Chicago Tribune vom 25. Mai 1916.

Ah: Homepage von Mr. Marcus (sehr schöne Farbe übrigens).

Nachweis: Greil Marcus, The Dustbin of History, London: Picador, 1997 (Tb.), S. 5 (Original: Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1995).