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Mar. 2nd, 2012 04:02 pmListening to the Flanders and Swann (mostly Flanders) monologue "By Air" on "At the Drop of a Hat", which deals with transatlantic flight in the 1960s. It produces a curious sense of familiarity and distance - some things are exactly the same, some of them are completely different. It's not a vanished world, just a very altered one, and that's almost stranger.
Either way, the line "If God had wanted us to fly, he wouldn't have give us the railways" is still very funny.
Either way, the line "If God had wanted us to fly, he wouldn't have give us the railways" is still very funny.