To a future world,- inhabited, no doubt, by a less acute and understanding race of men, - all this may seem a trifle strange. If so, that will be because the world of the future will have forgotten what it was like to live in 1929. (Thomas Wolfe)

To a future world,- inhabited, no doubt, by a less acute and understanding race of men, - all this may seem a trifle strange. If so, that will be because the world of the future will have forgotten what it was like to live in 1929.

Thomas Wolfe

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