I have a rebellion against the present, too! For entirely different reasons than this author. Argh.
This story was written in the mid-1950s. Before Vietnam, Watergate, JFK‘s assassination, and so many other things. Including the craziness of our time. And *they* wanted to go back in time?
#timetravel #escapistreading
AmyG Right? 6y
Clare-Dragonfly I wonder if it‘s true that people used to be happy to live in the present and didn‘t long for a simpler time. Memories of younger days often seem simpler (middle school is an exception). 6y
rwmg Sometimes the Golden Age is in the past, sometimes in the future. It never occurs to anyone that the Golden Age is now. 6y
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BarbaraTheBibliophage @rwmg Agreed. I try to be appreciative of today, despite its challenges. 6y
BarbaraTheBibliophage @Clare-Dragonfly Haha. Yes, middle school is an exception! I think we often long for other times, or at least our faulty memory of them. 6y
Louise Finney has a wonderful passage in Forgotten News where he talks about the faces of people in the 1890‘s—faces of people for whom the Industrial Revolution was nothing but positive for humankind, who had never known a world war or an atomic (let alone nuclear) bomb, etc. He describes an innocent optimism in those faces, devoid of the jadedness and existential fear of modern people. Finney certainly looked at the past as a gentler, simpler time. (edited) 6y
BarbaraTheBibliophage @Louise He must have been a time traveler himself! I‘ll have to look for![[tagged book]](https://image.librarything.com/pics/litsy_webpics/icon_taggedBook@3x.png)
Forgotten News: The Crime of the Century and Other Lost Stories 6y
Forgotten News: The Crime of the Century and Other Lost StoriesLouise Forgotten News is a non-fiction book, in which Finney indulges his fascination with news items from the past and how they were covered by the press back then. It‘s an interesting read. 6y
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