
I picked up this graphic novel last week that is pretty cool. It's called "
http://www.phonogramcomic.com/blog/" . Phonogram is based off the idea that pop music is magic, which it kind of is in real life: science really only has only the barest trace of a clue how and why music creates such enormous emotional responses inhuman beings. In Phonogram, any of the ways music can affect people are treated as magical events.What I liked about it is that the writer is about the same age as me and he had a character that goes through the same issues like growing older. There is a great line in the book: "
Nostalgia is an emotion for people with no future." Which is probably pretty harsh on one end but also very true on the other end.... at least it made me think for a bit flying 37,000 feet above the clouds @570mph an hour.
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I had to stop talking to him because everytime we did all he would do is go on and on about our years in high school and our defunct relationship. It was awkward and annoying because my life was expanding and changing rapidly.
Until he left the navy he was the same person the day he graduated from high school.
So good quote and very true.
I like nostalgia to a point -- I think many people like it because it is "safe". It is the known. It has already happened, and the outcome has already been grasped. I don't really know if I agree with the quote as a whole. You can be nostalgic at times without losing sight of the future. Granted, if you are *ALWAYS* nostalgic, that's pretty unhealthy, but the same can be said of any emotion, no?