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Topic: Re:The past is a foreign country
Posted by: Dominik Klimowski
Date/Time: 22/03/26 11:34:00

To answer people's questions:

The quote is from a book ‘The Go-Between’ by L.P. Hartley. It is meant to illustrate the fact that the past can be foreign to us insomuch as we’d behave differently, or things were done differently, and what seemed normal once may now feel quite foreign. I suppose it could also allude to fading memory, and how we preserve moments from our past, sometimes unsuccessfully.

I am the third generation of my family living in the same street in Ealing, and so I sometimes think about this, and about how things change. Not just the physical landscape, but attitudes, behaviours, trends, ambitions.

I’m getting on a bit now, so these things pop into my head more often. I also have neighbours who are even older than me, one of whom I helped get to Ealing Broadway recently. Along the way they told me a lot about their younger years and how the neighbourhood has changed. It is nice to hear first-hand accounts while we still can.

Individually, we can see the past differently to one another, and I’m quite interested in people’s memories and experiences. Of course they also shape the present and the future, which makes them all the more relevant and vital in our society and local community.

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TopicDate PostedPosted By
The past is a foreign country20/03/26 10:53:00 Dominik Klimowski
   Re:The past is a foreign country20/03/26 17:51:00 Keith Iddon
      Re:Re:The past is a foreign country21/03/26 13:50:00 Rosco White
         Re:Re:Re:The past is a foreign country12/04/26 16:29:00 Dominik Klimowski
            Re:Re:Re:Re:The past is a foreign country12/04/26 19:26:00 Rosco White
   Re:The past is a foreign country21/03/26 21:32:00 Peter Yale
      Re:Re:The past is a foreign country21/03/26 21:40:00 Simon Hayes
         Re:Re:Re:The past is a foreign country22/03/26 09:09:00 Rosco White
            Reply23/03/26 11:22:00 Gordon Southwell
               Re:Reply23/03/26 13:05:00 Rosco White
                  Reply23/03/26 17:39:00 Gordon Southwell
   Re:The past is a foreign country22/03/26 11:34:00 Dominik Klimowski
      Re:Re:The past is a foreign country22/03/26 11:49:00 Keith Iddon
      Re:Re:The past is a foreign country22/03/26 13:02:00 David Burke
         Re:Re:Re:The past is a foreign country23/03/26 15:57:00 Dominik Klimowski
            Re:Re:Re:Re:The past is a foreign country23/03/26 16:02:00 Rosco White
               Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:The past is a foreign country24/03/26 09:57:00 Dominik Klimowski
                  Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:The past is a foreign country25/03/26 07:13:00 Rosco White
                     Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:The past is a foreign country06/04/26 18:16:00 Dominik Klimowski
                        Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:The past is a foreign country07/04/26 08:18:00 Rosco White

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