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Tag: 2022-11 Nostalgia

  • Coca-Cola

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    Coca-Cola

    I had a coke last Friday; the first one in maybe years. I really can’t remember how long it’s been. I had this most recent one at the Centre Street Deli, in Thornhill, with an “Old Fashion” (smoked meat on rye). It strikes me as the right pairing. Maybe it’s because I believe that the…

  • Nostalgia

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    Nostalgia

    For me it is a thing that quickly swells up to an emotional precipice and then just as quickly subsides into a trough.  It is ephemeral; the strong emotions dissipate and while I remember it once was, the feeling is lost and unattainable.  “The very irretrievability of the past is salient in the experience.”[i] A…

  • Nostalgia

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    Nostalgia

    Avishai Margalit, George F. Kennan Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and Professor Emeritus at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, starts with the etymology of the word: “Nostalgia is a compound of two Greek terms: nostos (returning home) and algos (pain or yearning) “ [[1], p.272]. With this baseline he then submits that…

  • Nostalgia

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    Nostalgia

    With the end of the year approaching, the lists of Top, Best, Worse, Most … are starting to roll in.   I received an email from Abe Books reporting The 50 Most Expensive Sales of 2014.  Number 16 on the list was Box of Pin-Ups byDavid Bailey at $14,506. The description of the book reads: Published by Weidenfeld…