At each of the “historic locations” to which I traveled in search of History… I never could readily leave until I had sought to try to absorb an essence which in all probability was long since not, if ever, there.
The problem of the ontos of ruins.
The unconscious assumptions, or beliefs, which I bore in all of these searchings at the locations of stone remnants…
Stephen Lapeyrouse . . . Notes Dropped Along the Way 