I agree! How about: '...but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant...History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of "history" it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time-and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened.' ~HST

Really though I feel bad hanging any "western" literary quote on top of the amazing events in Egypt. I'm sure something from Egyptian culture would make a more appropriate quote than either Shakespeare or Hunter Thompson. Trying to follow the unfolding events has brought tears to my eyes of both joy and sadness more than once, and I am in awe of the courage and spirit and dynamic human energy of the revolution in progress.