EUs, whether MCU in 2015 or Holmes’ Victorian/Edwardian England in 1915, require a real world that’s almost complete but not yet dead.
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Wonder if there’s a good survey of world literature 1910-1940 in relation to its historical context.
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Hmm randomly trawling for stuff down this bunny trail I remember reading most of the Biggles series as a kid. A fictional fighter pilot turned “air detective” with career spanning WWI to 1950s. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biggles
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Hmm. HP Lovecraft is to post WW1 apocalyptic conditions as Godzilla is to post WW2?
An extended anti-universe of forces that destroy human attempts at creating universes.https://twitter.com/bysl/status/1318446561190322177?s=21 …Show this thread
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He was well aware of it, of course, but kept plugging away. Always a market for escapism.pic.twitter.com/WlSD0C8jET
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Only attempt at dipping a toe into the brave new world was Ring for Jeeves (1953), where Bertie enrols in prepper survivalist school and Jeeves helps in a 'duke does the dishes' household. Didn't work well, the sense of despondency was quite un-Wodehousian.
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