tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5954966970919940686.post9140253297332417101..comments2022-11-18T01:07:28.708-08:00Comments on dreamland literary and cinematic society: downton abbey edwardian dreamsbrenda cox giguerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06566513024203327058noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5954966970919940686.post-52346267875417233872011-02-03T22:01:50.119-08:002011-02-03T22:01:50.119-08:00I quite agree that there is something entrancing a...I quite agree that there is something entrancing about the <i>belle époque</i>. I've often wondered if my fascination is purely macabre—I know what they don't know, that their world was to be changed beyond all recognition by the Great War—or innocently curious, prompted by an idle wondering what shape the world might have taken had the "course" of history not been "perverted" by the all-sundering trauma of 1914-1918.<br /><br />To directly address the issue at hand, I've not seen <i>Downton Abbey</i> & have nothing to contribute on that score.Mike Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10111303530050272684noreply@blogger.com