tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1656921634940224775.post1902065971141240166..comments2024-02-11T15:29:31.409-05:00Comments on Richard's Pretension: ChronophobiaRichard Bellushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10108081864942272619noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1656921634940224775.post-56292230865759748872016-01-01T01:40:51.219-05:002016-01-01T01:40:51.219-05:00All of my grandparents were born between 1894 and ...All of my grandparents were born between 1894 and 1900, and that generation experienced the most radical technological transformation of any before or since. My Bellush grandfather left Austria-Hungary in a horse-drawn hay rick and returned to Budapest in a Boeing 707. The change since he made that flight (the year I attended the NYC 1964 World’s Fair with its exhibits about the future) is nothing like that. Modern phones and social media are cool and all, but they would not have impressed the denizens of 1964 all that much. Once again, I was one. They would have said, “OK, that’s sort-of nifty but show me some pictures of your flying cars and moon bases.”<br /><br />There is something appealing about the turn of the century (20th that is) precisely because it is where the future really began. If only we could have avoided that nastiness in 1914… Two of my short stories are set in 1910: the nonfiction How to Avoid Work and Flirt with the Butcher http://richardbellush2.blogspot.com/2012/10/how-to-avoid-work-and-flirt-with-butcher.html and the science fiction Model ET http://richardbellush2.blogspot.com/2012/10/model-et.html<br />Richard Bellushhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10108081864942272619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1656921634940224775.post-89104516540814357342015-12-31T19:47:32.468-05:002015-12-31T19:47:32.468-05:00The Harry August novel sounded more appealing to m...The Harry August novel sounded more appealing to me. I think that is a fantasy we all have. If something like that could happen it seems like the protagonist after he became self-aware of how it all works, might start to experiment a bit and change things up. Rather than being good, maybe I'll be a little more carefree this time around or adopt some other behavior or endeavors. <br /><br />Around Christmas I read a short story that takes place around Christmas in the early 1900s. It was unusual to see how far we've come from that era from lighting and heating our homes, to recreational activities, and so forth. But yeah, time in fiction has much to offer. El Voxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05985563041511492981noreply@blogger.com