Time looks very strange... when you miss so much of it.

I was recently looking into the past. People I once knew. Places I had once been.

It all looks so foreign now. So strange and discomforting. Where have I been while the world sped by?

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FreddieUK · 70-79, M

As L.P. Hartley wrote, The past is a foreign country

PotatoSmasher1890 · 26-30

@FreddieUK I've never heard of L.P Hartley. Have you any book recommendations?

FreddieUK · 70-79, M

@PotatoSmasher1890 It's a fairly well known quotation from The Go Between. Confession time...I've never read it.

The full quotation is The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there.

Knowing SW, a more learned person may be able to tell you more about Hartley. This book was made into a film in 1971