❝In both narratives of empire, the powerful centre attempts to neutralize the plot-line of revolution by turning the moment of revolution into a sacred moment, a moment of birth that, by that metaphor of birth, should happen only once, should ignore—forget—the ritual implications, the ritual of repetition implied in the making sacred.❞
— The Lovely Treachery of Words: Essays Selected and New, Robert Kroetsch, 1989












