A diary written on castle floorboards
That's quite a fantastic story. To me it especially underlines how biased historical records and our views of the past are. These entries may be only 138 years old, but I think the metric that matters is how many lifespans they are removed from our current reality. There is so much that goes unrecorded, and once people die the tape is effectively erased... I often think about the fact that World War II ended 83 years ago, and that the very last people that remember what it really meant are about to die. And once we lose that kind of memory, there's little to prevent us from going fullcicle and doing everything again...