Writing of past worlds is more than just wanting to live in them. It’s the fact that they've already been lived in, that the outcome of whatever crises plaguing that time have been concluded and humanity has survived.
It’s difficult walking along a darkened path with no idea of where it will end. Lately I’ve come to see it’s rather comforting to cloak one's self in cloth woven long ago.
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“One day this today will have been lived, the outcomes of our current crises concluded, the future fodder for some historical fiction writer’s pen. So for now come enter those distant worlds with me and leave the present behind, if even for just a little while.”