*sigh* Nostalgia just isn’t what it used to be . . .
(Quote by – Peter De Vries)
Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad old memory.
(Quote by – Franklin Pierce Adams)
Nostalgia: A device that removes the ruts and potholes from memory lane.
(Quote by – Doug Larson)
Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: you find the present tense, but the past perfect!
(Quote by – Owens Lee Pomeroy)
Don’t be nostalgic about something until you’re absolutely certain there’s no chance of its coming back! (Quote by – Bill Vaughn)
If you’re really determined to relive the good old days: SWITCH OFF THE AIRCON!
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Lindy Stiebel, English Prof at UKZN wrote about Victor Stiebel (probably some relation?), who couldn’t wait to leave Natal, became very famous in England, then wrote about his childhood forty years later. My brief takeaway on her discussion on nostalgia was roughly: Nostalgia does not necessarily mean you want to go back.
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Excerpts:
While there is certainly affection in the gaze Stiebel casts over his family and his upbringing, the nostalgia is of a reflective kind rather than restorative, in Boym’s terms: ‘[w]hile restorative nostalgia returns and rebuilds one’s homeland with paranoic determination, reflective nostalgia fears return with the same passion.’ Reflective nostalgia has no wish to return home, accepting that the past is the past; instead, an aesthetic distance can be maintained, memories of the past home – because sealed off from the present – can be a source of pleasure.
Not . . the exile’s or immigrant’s longing for home . . instead nostalgia . . precisely because he wanted to escape from home, not cling to it.
As Nasta states: ‘[h]ome, it has been said, is not necessarily where one belongs but the place where one starts from.’
. . finally, his childhood home was a place to run from . .
See:
Vrystaat Confessions 