Men love the past and I can do nothing against this love, nor can my executioners, but some time there will be a man who feels as I do, and he will destroy my wall, as I destroyed the books, and will erase my memory and will be my shadow and my mirror and will not be aware of it.~ Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang who oversaw the beginnings of the Great Wall, and ordered the burning of all books published before his rule.
