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Wed 23 Mar 2022

Golden

Posted by PJ under delusion, golden age, nostalgia, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“One of the sturdiest precepts of the study of human delusion is that every golden age is either past or in the offing.”

—Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Desus and Mero, Beyoncé, or the Marine Corps Marching Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Fri 14 Jan 2022

Time travel

Posted by PJ under black lives matter, history, nostalgia, quote of the day, time
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Random quote of the day:

“The New York Times reported that nearly seven in ten Republicans prefer America as it was in the fifties, a nostalgia of course entirely unavailable to a person like me, for in that period I could not vote, marry my husband, have my children, work in the university I work in, or live in my neighborhood. Time travel is a discretionary art: a pleasure trip for some and a horror story for others. Meanwhile some on the left have time-travel fancies of their own, imagining that the same rigid ideological principles once applied to the matters of workers’ rights, welfare and trade can be applied unchanged to a globalized world of fluid capital.”

—Zadie Smith, “On Optimism and Despair,” Feel Free

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Desus and Mero, Beyoncé, or the Marine Corps Marching Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

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