Tom the Dancing Bug cartoon on how people try to create meaning out of incomprehensible events. Good illustration about the relationship between people/generations and history that we've been talking about toward the end of the class: historical events impact the individual/group, who then has to put it into some kind of interpretive box; the resulting people then generate new historical change themselves.
http://salon.com/comics/boll/2007/04/26/boll/index1.html
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