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akashiver ([personal profile] akashiver) wrote2006-11-20 06:57 pm

re: that damn song

...just stumbled across a line in a book on the 18C that sums up what I wanted to say.

On Picturesque Tourism in the 1750s:
"The development of sentiment was what it was all about, yet engagement with what was seen - human misery - was not."

My, how times change.

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