Did it really happen

Stein, Wars, S.110 (GS 18)

Did it really happen, oh yes she said, it does happen and it did happen.Well so life
goes on, we had just been reading Shakespeare Richard the Third, and and the things they say there
do sound just like that, so why not, anything is so if the country makes it so, and a century makes it
so when it is so, just like that.just like that.
history does repeat itself,
I have often thought that that was the really
soothing that history does.
The one thing that is sure and
certain is that history does not
teach, that is to say,
it always says let it be a lesson to you
but is it ?
Not at all
Not at all
because
circumstances always alter
cases and so
although history does repeat itself
it is only because the repetition
is soothing that
anyone believes it,
nobody
nobody wants to
learn either by their own or anybody
else's experience,
nobody does,
no
they say they do but no
nobody does.
Yes
nobody does.