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Modern nations as well as primitive tribes may try to repeat their primordial events and look for escape into sacred time. It is a dangerous passage. Hitler's 1,000-year Reich, the tribe of fur-clad Übermenschen with Aryan fire in their eyes, lasted for twelve years. Hitler meant to inject his vulgar sacred time into profane time, but the sacred can never intrude for more than an instant. Any longer, and the results are monstrous.
In the Falklands, the British have wistfully and almost reflexively sought their sacred epoch, their more vigorous, regenerating myths. Their ships are afloat not only on the South Atlantic but on the mysterious fluid of time.
—By Lance Morrow