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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @kr 25 Oct 2023 \ on: Is it possible to really put oneself into the mind of a different era? tech
history books can do a pretty good job of this, especially if they’re local books about the history of your region
Completely agree. Novels, especially, can transport you somewhere. But it is only our imagining of what it might be like. But you're right, reading something like Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography can take us some of the way there.
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