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According to the narrator, how do people make sense of the past?

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What historical dictator does the narrator refer to when claiming that people craft narratives about the past to suit their own purposes?

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How does the narrator characterize people who spend their lives collecting remnants of the past?

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According to the narrator, who alone knows how events actually took place?

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To what ordinary act does the narrator compare the process of constructing historical narratives?

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