Both are oriented toward the past, and both are even concerned in some sense with preserving the past.
But there is a difference between fighting to "conserve" values from the past, and journeying into the narrative worlds in which those values are ostensibly to be found.
But retrieval is different from conservation in that by journeying into ancient texts, we may be surprised by what we find. It may even directly contradict our previously held "conservative" values.
The past is plural, and any attempt to conserve ancient values is itself a rupturing or synthesizing of the past and a movement of the mutable self, conducted from within an interpretive community, before the face of God.
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But there is a difference between fighting to "conserve" values from the past, and journeying into the narrative worlds in which those values are ostensibly to be found.
We do not—indeed cannot—preserve ancient values. In pilgrimage into ancient texts, we are changed.