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Music I'm Magna Chakrabardi, and this is the Jack Pod, where on-point news analyst Jack Beattie helps us connect history, literature, and politics in a way that brings his unique clarity to the world we live in now.

Hi there, Jack.

Hello, Megna.

Episode 76. The headline?

The past is a foreign country.

Okay, so you're starting right off with literature. Tell me more.

Well, that's the first line of a novel, The Go Between, by L.P. Hartley.

It was made into a 1971 movie, and the line goes,

The Past is a foreign country. They do things differently there.

That's the first line you said, right?

From the book?

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