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In idle moments, I try to amuse myself by projecting my mind into other historical periods. Lately, I am fascinated by what it must have been like to live in the early twentieth century when so many of the things we take for granted in our daily doings today had just come on the scene and established themselves as normal accessories to everyday life . How modern it all must have seemed in 1924 when most adults could still remember a world of horse-drawn carriages, outhouses, kerosene lamps, and Saturday night baths! Whole ideologies had to be constructed to account for being modern and to explain it. (en) |
