Today’s Zippy ’s yesterday
“How much time do we spend remembering the past?”
“The time just before”
Every so often I’ve tried to track down a passage I read years ago — something to the effect that the time we’re most curious about or enamored of or nostalgic for is the time just before our own. I thought I might have finally found the passage.
Gay Talese’s address book
“I am a person who cares about the past as much as the future. I don’t think that it is ethical to erase the past.”
But also across time
Connecting past and present via the Internet: a 1925 photograph as seen in 2012.
In search of lost sound
The Library of Vanished Sounds