I like history. Probably because it's like time travel, except without the actual travel part. So it's like time, except past time. You know, history.
Damn. I'm sure everyone sees why I dream of being a writer. That's some good stuff right there.
Anyway, I like history, it's full of stuff that's usually way weirder than fiction. I know it's a cliche, but it's true, real stuff is way more bizarre. I think the reason fiction works so well is that it allows us a sense of justice, or closure, or whatever, that we rarely see in real life. No, in real life, nice people get struck by lightning on their honeymoon and die. Or the biggest ass in town wins $43 million in the lottery and makes all the people he's bullied and spat on his whole life suffer even more. Because that's real life (Ironically, I made up the one about the lottery, I couldn't think of anything else off the top of my head).
Whoa, I didn't mean to take this to such a dark place. All that is just to say I found the
National Archives Flickr stream yesterday and spent some time being mesmerized. Please, go waste your time there just as I have mine.
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| Retirement home my ass. They put granny in a sweatshop |
