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An idea that is both trite and a truism, but also difficult to articulate.
How can we tell what happens in the gaps of history?
The first whaling illustration is fascinating, the illustrator seems to have some interesting ideas of what a whale is. He clearly knows they are mammals but has obviously never seen a real one before.
A pop culture example, people talk about smallpox depopulating north america in the century between columbus and smith.
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