“The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.”
the quote is from Robertson Davies’ 1960 book A Voice from the Attic.
(ht to the bob)
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I keep scrolling past this quote thinking something doesn’t seem to fit.
Funny, I realized that I had an arrogance about our “contemporary” thought. That the quote comes from 1960 just seems very wrong to me.
Of course, I also think my generation invented sex.
Comment by Jeff Moulton 03.18.07 @ 8:09 pm