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.
DEBUT
“Would Santayana Take It Back?,” in The Philadelphia Inquirer,26 May
2016 (online edition).
VARIANTS
Debut. “Would Santayana Take It Back?,” in The Philadelphia Inquirer,26 May 2016 (online edition).
We haven’t yet mapped out the time travel itinerary.
INDEXER NOTES (SPOILERS!)
Release—According to <a href='https%3A%2F%2Fwww.inquirer.com%2Fphilly%2Fopinion%2F20160526_Commentary__Would_Santayana_take_it_back_.html'> the story’s appearance in the Philadelphia Inquirer</a>, the initial appearance was in the <em>Weekly Standard</em>.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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