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« on: November 22, 2006, 05:47:55 AM »
I saw pictures of the Civil War, and that will hold me for the rest of my life. Â Andersonville, was it?
DS eras? Â How about 1967? Â Â In previous eras I always think first about lack of medicines, and less tolerance for differences... though what the hell, they had less petrochemical pollution, unpesticided food. Â It was harder to dress differently and get away with it, but what you had to wear was better (maybe only if you had money), and men got to have longer hair.
1897 is quirky and atmospheric along with having some modern conveniences, sort of a pause between the 'romantic' past and technological present, where lots of cool machines were around, but they still made them to look ornate or interesting. Â I'd be too scared of eras before that.