"The Future of the Earth, According to Cosmo" Topic
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| Tango01 | 22 Jul 2020 9:28 p.m. PST |
"The Future of the Earth by Nobel Prize-winning Belgian poet and playwright Maurice Maeterlinck was originally published in the March 1918 volume of Cosmopolitan. As futurism, it is not very specific with technological, social, or evolutionary hypotheses. But in the context of the Great War raging on around it, it is a marvelous sermon. "It is well, sometimes," he says towards the end of his article, "to tell ourselves, especially in these days of distress and discouragement, that we are living in a world which has not yet exhausted its future and which is much nearer to its beginning than to its end." It is advice still worth heeding…"
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Armand
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| Stryderg | 23 Jul 2020 10:05 a.m. PST |
I disagree, I think the end is much closer than we suppose. |
| Tango01 | 23 Jul 2020 12:57 p.m. PST |
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| Zephyr1 | 23 Jul 2020 2:20 p.m. PST |
"March 1918 volume of Cosmopolitan." More popular was the quiz on pg 56, "Twelve Things He Does That Drives You Crazy"… ;-) |
| Tango01 | 24 Jul 2020 12:21 p.m. PST |
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| Augustus | 24 Jul 2020 7:21 p.m. PST |
That was before or after the treatise on the Kardashians' latest fashion choice? |
| Tango01 | 25 Jul 2020 11:54 a.m. PST |
Dude…! (smile) Amicalement
Armand |
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