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Including @qmacro here because it's a reply to him, too. I was really taken with Ryszard Kapuściński's comment on Herodotus, which really gets at everything I get/have got from reading and re-reading him: 'The man who ceases to be astonished is hollow, possessed of an extinguished heart'