Tuesday, December 13, 2022

Ghostly And Unreal

Egon Friedell, A Cultural History of the Modern Age, tr. Charles Francis Atkinson, Vol. I (1930; rpt. London: Vision Press, 1953), p. 147:

And most probably our century will seem as ghostly and unreal to a later age as the fourteenth century to us.

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