Bringing to life ghosts

“But there is nothing so ‘new’ and so startling as the Past, for most people. All the supreme novelties come from the most distant epochs; the more remote the more novel, of course. The ‘Future’, it is true, contains nothing but potential novelties. But they are not yet in existence, and so cannot be educed.” - Wyndham Lewis, Time and Western Man, Book I, ch. VIII, p. 36.