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    THE ART OF EQUALITY

    Feb 27, 2020 3 minutes

    Romantic nostalgia

    Le Morte d’Arthur Thomas Malory (1485)

    “One thing that really fascinated me was that Malory was writing nostalgically about the way men and women were together in a sort of magical, hundreds-of-years-ago place quite different from the world he was living in at the time. Today, people hark back to 1950s values, for example, and a kind of idealised world – we have a nostalgic view. And that’s exactly what people were doing way back in Malory’s day as well.”

    Marital discord

    Paradise Lost John Milton (1667)

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