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Listening 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.