History presents an historian with the task of producing a dialogue between the past and the present. But as these temporal co-ordinates cannot be fixed, history becomes a continuous interaction between the historian and the past.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "History presents an historian with the task of producing a dialogue between the past and the present. But as these temporal co-ordinates cannot be fixed, history becomes a continuous interaction between the historian and the past." in the context of "Dana Arnold, Reading Architectural History (2002), Ch. 1 : Reading the past : What is architectural history?" to mean that wisdom is timeless.