Tuesday, 5 January 2021

Those Were The Days

"The Problem of Pain."

On his first job after graduating from the University of Nova Roma on Aeneas, Peter Berg explored the future Avalon with Ythrians who had not only scientific curiosity but also a sense of adventure. We have quoted his enthusiastic description twice before:

"'Oh, it was a wonderful thing to be young in that band!'"
-see here.
 
Berg is not yet thirty but it is possible to feel nostalgia for very recent times. In fact, I think that nostalgia is too precious a commodity to waste on the past. We can realize that we are now in times for which we will be nostalgic when they are gone. I managed to spin out my time in University and also to return to Higher Education twice later. Thus, while a student, I could remember being a student. In Dublin, someone said that he would read Ulysses in thirty years time when he was feeling nostalgic about Dublin. That was fifty years ago. Alice In Wonderland ends with Alice's older sister looking into the future to Alice looking back:

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

But Peter Berg spoke like that because the sorrow he still felt for the death of his wife on Grey/Avalon made him feel older than his years.

Ad astra! Sean