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No sushi. No TV. Few interesting books. I could go on.
by petervandijck 16y ago
No sushi. No TV. Few interesting books. I could go on.
- artmageddon 16y agoNo means of rapid transportation over extremely long distances.
- hyperbovine 16y ago> Few interesting books. Except for Dickens, Shakespeare, Poe, Austen, Twain, Dostoyevksy, Tolstoy, the Bronte sisters, Melville, Arthur Conan Doyle, Victor Hugo, Dumas, Thoreau, Marx, Henry James, H.G. Wells, Jules Verne, Joseph Conrad, Ibsen, George Eliot, Oscar Wilde ... (I could go on.) Yep, it was a real literary dark ages back then.
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- petervandijck 16y agoQuite honestly I find most of those pretty boring. Jules Verne is fine but not if you know Herbert Frank exists (or will exist).
- Vivtek 16y agoDude. I already know how to make sushi, and I don't have a TV now. There are plenty of interesting books in a library that's way classier than the one we have now - and the Wright Brothers live down the street (well; they might have gone to Dayton by 1900) and plenty of other tinkers and inventors. There were more patents in this county in 1900 than any other county in the United States. 1900 in Richmond, Indiana was where it was at.
- colomon 16y agoUmm... how are you getting sushi quality fish in Richmond, Indiana in 1900? What's your source of nori and wasabi?
- petervandijck 16y agoYea. And good coffee :) There's a lot we take for granted. Then again, there's a lot we could probably do without.