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“History doesn’t repeat itself,” the maxim maintains, “but it rhymes.”

“This is what a study of history provides you with. Mark Twain is supposed to have said it doesn’t repeat itself, which it never does, but it rhymes,” says Burns.

For centuries, depictions of the plague racing along the Silk Route, devastating cities and towns in its path, have been based on a misunderstanding of a rhyming story rather than a historical record.

The past doesn’t repeat itself, but, according to the cliché, it rhymes.

If history often rhymes, as the familiar slogan holds, this time it rhymes like crazy.