Alan Jacobs


Further irrelevancies

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unapologetic-book:

I made a radio documentary for the BBC about the influence in the 1930s of a cult book, An Experiment with Time, that seemed to rationalise spirituality and to promise a very peculiar form of fatalistic consolation, just right for an age of dread.  Contains early aircraft design, a chocolate box of achingly British voices, and umpteen different versions of ‘As Time Goes By…’