“In our brave new world, blushing is a form of nostalgia.”
"On Being Embarrassed" (p. 139)
Private Lives in the Imperial City (1979)
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American critic, writer, and commentator 1939–2008Related quotes
“Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.”
Bye-Bye Sixties, Hollywood-Style, Square Dancing in the Ice Age (1982).
“The invisible is only another unexplored country, a brave new world.”
Source: The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
Context: I don't find fantasy to be more or less suited to philosophical questions than any other genre, really. I think that the soul of fantasy—or second-world fantasy at least—is our problematic relationship with nostalgia. The impulse to return to a golden age seems to be pretty close to the bone, at least in western cultures, and I wouldn't be at all surprised if it's a human universal. For me, it's tied up with the experience of aging and the impulse to recapture youth. Epic fantasy, I think, takes its power from that. We create golden eras and either celebrate them or—more often—mourn their loss.
Interview with Peter Orullian http://orullian.com/writing/danielabraham_interview.html
“How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, that has such people in it!”
Variant: O, brave new world
that has such people in't!
Source: The Tempest
Source: 1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988), p. 105
