Speaking of '90s cynicism. I just had this thought about time travel fiction I read during that decade. @arthur_affect
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Many time travel novels from that decade seemed to take the tack that the modern world was terrible, and escape to the past was preferable.
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For example, in this book I just reviewed, Reflections in the Nile, there was a line about how the heroine wanted to escape the time of "malls, McDonalds and machine guns" to escape to the distant past of the Bronze Age.https://dearauthor.com/book-reviews/f-reviews/review-reflections-in-the-nile-by-j-suzanne-frank/ …
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Replying to @suburbanbeatnik
Yes, the agenda is really disturbing – give up all those hard-won modern rights and technological and medical advances… The past isn't cosplay.
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Replying to @NuitsdeY @suburbanbeatnik
I read an interview with Jackman when Kate and Leopold came out and he straight up just laughs and says "Yeah as soon as Kate's contractions started she'd be screaming 'GET BACK IN THE DAMN TIME MACHINE, GET ME AN EPIDURAL'"
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And, you know, "This is a ridiculous fantasy of what 19th century arisricratic men were like and how they treated women but we all have our fantasies"
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"The Victorians had an *ideal* of how they thought people should behave to each other, and there is much to admire today in that ideal, but an ideal is never reality"
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