Shortly after the publication of Wells’s The Time Machine, Jorge Agustin Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás (aka George Santayana) is visited by time travelers who beseech him to never put his only historically remembered sentence.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Variants

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  1. “Would Santayana Take It Back?” by Joe Queenan, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, 26 May 2016 (online edition).
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Joe Queenan

Indexer Notes

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  1. Release—According to the story’s appearance in the Philadelphia Inquirer, the initial appearance was in the Weekly Standard.