The Preservation and Annihilation of Memory.
The annihilation of books, ideas, and free expression is the topic of a new Substack newsletter.
"because they contained nothing but superstition and the devil's falsehoods, we burnt them all"
Bishop Diego de Landa burns Mayan books in 1562.
Eduardo Hughes Galeano, Memoria del fuego (Memory of Fire Trilogy, 1986).
