rendered drab by the shadows of time

"No one can really know the life of his own day, let alone that of times long past. Always the historian sees as in a mirror darkly, the reds and the golds rendered drab by the shadows of time."

~Earl R. Beck, On Teaching History in Colleges and Universities
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Coal conveyor, Portside Power Plant (a pseudonym), 2009. Photograph by Matthew Christopher of Abandoned America