In the first chapter of The Labyrinth of Solitude, Octavio Paz reflects on the face of an old man… “features are seen as a face, and later as a mask, a meaning, a history.”
Mural seen on Calle de Narciso Mendoza in Barrio de Jalatlaco.
And John Dalberg-Acton wrote, “History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.”