From: petertrei@gmail.com   
      
   On 10/8/2025 1:04 AM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:   
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   > On 10/7/25 16:19, William Hyde wrote:   
   >> James Nicoll wrote:   
   >>> In article <5j28ek9rqntltlibteell2llkmfdg5o89h@4ax.com>,   
   >>> The Horny Goat   wrote:   
   >>>> On Sat, 04 Oct 2025 09:24:08 -0700, Paul S Person   
   >>>>  wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> In my case, both intra-ocular lenses produced astigmatism, so going   
   >>>>> without glasses was never an option.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Not that I would have, having worn them since at least the 6th   
   >>>>> grade.=20   
   >>>>>   
   >>>> In my case it was October of my grade 1 year when my teacher called my   
   >>>> mother and advised her to get my eyes checked.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Fortunate for me since I was a tall 6 year old (and in most grade 1   
   >>>> classes that means "seated at the back of the classroom") who was VERY   
   >>>> good at verbal questions but having a tough time with the blackboard   
   >>>> even those a strong reader (I started reading just before my 5th   
   >>>> birthday) With glasses I had no problems and did well in school   
   >>>> thereafter.   
   >>>   
   >>> In grade one and two, the luck of the seating draw by surname   
   >>> put me at the back of a middle row. Until I got my glasses towards   
   >>> the end of grade two, I had no idea there was stuff on the blackboard.   
   >>   
   >> I was lucky, and got glasses in grade one.  I could see that there was   
   >> something on the blackboard.  Perhaps I mentioned that what was on the   
   >> board didn't look anything like what was in my book.   
   >>   
   >> The past is a strange place indeed.   
   >>   
   >> William Hyde   
   >>   
   >      It certain was strange but had some very nice inhabitants.  It also   
   > had people like Adolph Hitler, Father Coughlin, Henry Ford, Joseph Stalin   
   > Daryl Gates, Fred Trump and their various crews. Nice folks like FDR and   
   > Eleanor, Harry Truman, Dwight David Eisenhower, Earl Warren and   
   >   Pat Brown, the younger more idealistic Jerry Brown, and a host of other   
   >   including JFK, Martin Luther KIng, and more I never heard of.   
   >   Allan Ginsberg, Hemingway, Jack Kerouac, Robert Heinlein, Ray Bradbury,   
   >   Cordwainer Smith, to name but a few. Oh and much younger me. James   
   > Branch Cabell had completed his long series about Manuel before I was.   
   > Eggar Rice Burroughs with his fantasies from Africa to Mars was pretty   
   > well out of the picture.  Tom Swift was not yet jUnior and flew his   
   > Electric Airplane and other fantastic toys.   
   >      Batman has been freshly invented to take the place of Sherlock   
   > Holmes as Master Dectective as well as acroBatic crime fighter.   
   > Kal-El was so young he could not fly nor did he yet know his   
   > given name but was happy to work as a reporter, with a crush   
   > on Lois Lane. for the mighty newspaper "The Daily Planet'.   
   > During WW II they would be joined by Bullet Man and his companion   
   > a woman, Wonder Woman herself, Hawkman and his girl friend.   
   > Captain America and the Star-Spangled Kid, The Human Torch   
   > who was an Android, Daredevil who was not blind then and   
   > several troups of children all fighting the NAZI and their spies   
   > in our sacred USA and overseas. At the same time in the   
   > real newspapers, we had Mutt & Jeff, Terry and the Pirates,   
   > Flash Gordon, Prince Valiant, the Katzenjammer Kids copied   
   > as the Captain and the Kids, Our Boarding House and others.   
   > Bring Up Father aka Maggie and Jiggs.  Oh life was rich if   
   > you could afford a daily paper and we could. We also read   
   > the Saturday Evening Post, Life Magazine, Colliers' and   
   > a few others. I think it was Colliers that printer long   
   > articles on the forth-coming space exploration with   
   > illustrations of orbital space station inspired by Werner   
   > von Braun ideas.   
   >   
   >      We had Amazing Stories, Astounding which became Analog,   
   > Worlds of If, Galaxy and the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction,   
   > still floating around were Startling Stories, Planet Stories and more.   
   >   
   >      It did not have White Christian Nationalism but Isolationism   
   > and its supporters who worked on a plot to overthrow FDR. The old   
   > John Birch Society which insisted that some Democrat had surrendered   
   > China to the Communist Party whereas we never held any title to any   
   > of China.   
   >   
   >      There was no movement to change the laws regarding same sex   
   > relationships nor the idea that allowing them the same rights as other   
   > Americans would destroy society or harm other peoples sexual   
   > relationships.  Transgender would not arrise until teh 1960s when   
   > a book was published called the "Transsexual Phenomena" by an   
   > endocrinologist,Harry Benjamin, then it was only a scale of gerder   
   > from normal? thru transgender to the most extreme transsexual.   
   > before that the term "Sex Change" was used to designate the more   
   > public members of the gender dsyphoria crowd.   
   >      We had the fission bomb and the fusion bomb and lived   
   > in fear of Communist invasion.  Movies were made about that   
   > unpleasant possibility.   
   >   
   >      Yes the past was strange and the future, if humanity persists   
   > in its many follies, will be stranger still.  I hope humanity itself   
   > persists somehow.   
   >   
   >      bliss   
      
      
   "The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."   
       - L P Hartley, "The Go-Between"   
      
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