“A few decades ago, while teaching in China, the great professor and literary and cultural critic, George Steiner met some archaeologists, who were digging up the terracotta armies. They were, he discovered to his astonishment, putting the earth back over large sections of the warriors, leaving instructions for future generations of archaeologists to locate them … They wanted to leave to people of the future, the joy of uncovering more.”
Scattered Truth part 2b by Laura Waddington
Source: George Steiner in Of Beauty and Consolation (extract), Interview by Wim Kazyer, VPRO (YouTube)