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caddymanOccasionally something happens that makes me feel old.
On and off over the past couple of weeks I have been re-reading Alan Moore's original run on Swamp Thing still, in my opinion, the best stuff he's ever done. Despite knowing that it was originally published in 1984 and that I used to have the original comics, I had never thought about it in terms of time passed. So, not only are those comics old enough to vote and then some, but it occurs to me now, in one of those moments of sorry realisation, that they were published half my life time ago. I remember having a similar feeling in 1987, when I picked up a book called It was Twenty Years Ago Today about 1967, the year the Beatles relseased Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Strangely the fortieth anniversary went by two years ago with no equivalent twinge. I am clearly immune now, to Beatles anniversaries.
I wonder what the next thing will be; what sudden realisation of something I already know will make me feel ancient? As I once remarked to the Kaiser...
On and off over the past couple of weeks I have been re-reading Alan Moore's original run on Swamp Thing still, in my opinion, the best stuff he's ever done. Despite knowing that it was originally published in 1984 and that I used to have the original comics, I had never thought about it in terms of time passed. So, not only are those comics old enough to vote and then some, but it occurs to me now, in one of those moments of sorry realisation, that they were published half my life time ago. I remember having a similar feeling in 1987, when I picked up a book called It was Twenty Years Ago Today about 1967, the year the Beatles relseased Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Strangely the fortieth anniversary went by two years ago with no equivalent twinge. I am clearly immune now, to Beatles anniversaries.
I wonder what the next thing will be; what sudden realisation of something I already know will make me feel ancient? As I once remarked to the Kaiser...