Having determined in the winter of 74-75 that I would “catch history*”, in religion, philosophy and history itself… Now verging on five decades since, I recognize that I was in a way captive to history, and now having caught up with it, at least in its main ideas, I am freed from it. Or at least it as a burden of task.
*by going into the past, and finding the oldest roots of ideas, and then tracing them forward through time, which took decades,…, finally I’ve caught up with the main ideas as they live now in time.
Stephen Lapeyrouse . . . Notes Dropped Along the Way 