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Neglected Books@neglectedbooks.bsky.social |
Lord, the reams of paper that have been wasted on placing our perceptions of old-timey people onto their experience, period! L. P. Hartley was right about the past: it's a foreign country—and we don't speak its language.
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Movies Silently
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Yes, it's such a trap because they were simultaneously very different but they also had very similar responses to us. We tend to infantilize the past and make our forebears out to be naive goofs. I mean, some were but every era has them. I love reading vintage audience responses, they were smart.
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