Two parts of the triangular overlap

If (if) what we are doing can be conveyed by the overlap between theory, history, and auto-biography (hence forth "primary self-source") then here is a quote from Michel-Rolph Trouillot that I think gets to two parts of the overlap:

"History did not need to be mine in order to engage me. It just needed to relate to someone, anyone. It could not just be The Past. It had to be someone's past." (Silencing the Past, 142)