
"A frozen body discovered in the local river could cause a world-wide historical revolution: was Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo or was he ice fishing near Cicely and fathering a tribe of French-speaking Native Americans?"
Een erg Franse aflevering met hier en daar een melodieus accordeondeuntje en een verwijzing naar Marcel Prousts Op zoek naar de verloren tijd. "When from a long distant past nothing persists, after the people are dead, after things are broken and scattered, still alone, more persistent, more faithful, the smell and taste of things remain poised a long, long time like souls, ready to remind us, waiting, hoping for their moment amid the ruins of all the rest, and bear unfaltering in the tiny and almost impalpable drop of their essence the vast structure of recollection." Gelukkig is er steeds de scepticus Joel Fleischman.
Voor een goeie quote: "History is powerful stuff. One day your world is fine. The next day it's knocked for a metaphysical loop. Was Napoleon really at Waterloo? Would that change what I had for breakfast? Thoughts turn to our refrigerated friend Pierre Le Moulin, Pierre the Windmill, stepchild of history. If those chapped lips could speak, what would they say? Bonjour?" (Chris in the Morning).
Northern Exposure. Seizoen 3. Aflevering 6. The Body in Question. 1991.
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